From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 11:59:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2DA037B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:59:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ofoto.com (sparty.ofoto.com [206.14.93.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7256443EB2 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephb@ofoto.com) Received: from mail2.ofoto.com (mail2.ofoto.com [206.14.93.24]) by ofoto.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id h0HJxFT28439 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:59:15 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: Looking for M-Audio Audiophile 2496 driver Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:59:15 -0800 Message-ID: <7F3C24625B6CCB4BA484D67142D9304A5C664A@mail2.ofoto.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Looking for M-Audio Audiophile 2496 driver Thread-Index: AcK+YwgyY/IZv91JS3iXm+KUHTVWNQ== From: "Stephane Baud" To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard = (http://www.m-audio.com/products/m-audio/audiophile.php) and am looking = for a matching FreeBSD driver. I'm new to FreeBSD and have recently = installed version 4.7 stable. Installation via FTP was a breeze and the = only missing piece so far is sound. I know that this soundcard is not = explicitely listed in the hardware compatibility list, but I was hoping = that maybe someone in the FreeBSD community came up with a driver that's = not yet offically listed, or at least that's there's work in progress or = some alpha quality experimental driver that I'd be happy to help = testing. This is not just one other exotic soundcard, it's an very good = one (all reviews are raving about it), with extremely low latency (under = 1ms on Mac OS X) and very good DACs. It's a very popular soundcard among = musicians for computer based music and I was hoping to be able to use it = on FreeBSD. Yes, there is an ALSA driver available on Linux, but I'd = rather stick to FreeBSD as I'm convinced of its design superiority and I = don't want to deal w/ the whole Linux distribution mess. I guess the = only Linux distro that got my attention recently is Gentoo = (www.gentoo.org), precisely because it "ports" based, a la FreeBSD, but = it's still in its early stage and needs to mature a bit I think. Thanks a lot in advance for your ideas/suggestions. -- Stephane To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message