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Date:      Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:36:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sound card question
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301011835270.19418-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E137B65.7080502@twcny.rr.com>

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On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Tom Parquette wrote:

> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:36:05 -0500
> From: Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Sound card question
> 
> I'm starting to look at adding a basic sound card to my machine.
> I'm looking at Sound Blaster since it seems to be the least common 
> denominator.
> 
> The motherboard does not have any ISA slots.  (PCI only).
> The man page on the web site indicates the sound blaster support is for 
> ISA.  
> The hardware support web page for 4.7-RELEASE really does not say much 
> of anything about ISA vs. PCI.
> Is a PCI sound blaster card supported?  
> TIA...
> 
> 

PCI Soundblasters seem to work great. I have 3 SBLive! cards installed 
here. The Handbook has a page about adding sound support to your kernel 
(you'll need 'device pcm'):

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html

JB


#  John Bleichert 
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