From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 4 19:10:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 DB88616A41F for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:10:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6479943D48 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:10:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i11so246151wra for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:10:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ha4XLbhaQzmZ4SswJBMHiUQFtbFYuIBwoWOrUu8A8S/qsY2Z/p80i+2yXWrY1mNf61V4uvORgZPX9he26zzAYwrPPdb1+G8tk5KYiImBtrMG01mKc3IXosYRYKd0SaJ+VEqyiBWFG2ayrEF3hj0Z6daWF2V1hhZX2lHXr/E2Gg0= Received: by 10.54.11.41 with SMTP id 41mr1855025wrk; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.11 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:10:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:10:11 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton To: hal In-Reply-To: <6F67E66B-EE3E-422B-9D60-F56E0AA9C755@cc.usu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <6A1C7360-A053-4C77-AE30-6E91FD8D8AE4@cc.usu.edu> <6F67E66B-EE3E-422B-9D60-F56E0AA9C755@cc.usu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: sound vs. PCIX bus X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nikolas Britton List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:10:16 -0000 On 8/4/05, hal wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:54 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: >=20 > On 8/3/05, hal wrote:=20 >=20 > Can anyone recommend a sound card for the PCIX bus? >=20 > =20 >=20 > You will not be able to find a sound card that's PCI-X. A 16-bit / > 44KHz PCM audio stream is something like 1MB/s and the 32-bit / 33MHz > PCI bus can support 133MB/s. I don't think their will ever be a PCI-X > based sound card.... You can use a normal PCI card in a PCI-X slot so > just buy an el-cheapo sound can an stick pop it in there.... We are > talking about PCI-X and not PCI-eXpress, right? > > I don't know which bus I have for sure, but the card slots have > a non-removable bridge in them which prevents me from inserting > the sound card I have. >=20 > BTW others have suggested various schemes for using the internal > speaker. (THANKS) I have tried their suggestions and they work. > Not loud enough of course, but I may be able to solve that. >=20 For the record.... Here's what PCI, PCI-X, and PCIe x16 buses look like: http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=3Dxeon64mb&page=3D4 I also found a sound card that will work in a PCI-X slot and in FreeBSD. It's a "CREATIVE Sound Blaster Live! 30SB041000000 24-bit 96KHz" and it uses the emu10k1 FreeBSD driver (man snd_emu10k1), you can find it over at newegg.com for $29 + $5 S&H http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=3DN82E16829102177