Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:26:20 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE Message-ID: <200712070826.20544.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <475875DD.8000506@math.arizona.edu> References: <200712061322.40986.kstewart@owt.com> <475875DD.8000506@math.arizona.edu>
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On Thursday 06 December 2007, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Kent Stewart wrote: > > I had the sound card in my primary FreeBSD user system go bad on > > me. When I went shopping for a replacement sound card for an old > > system, the only thing I could see that didn't take too much of my > > cpu horsepower was the Audigy SE. It seems to be the generic sound > > card that you can purchase in a Best Buy or such electronic store. > > It isn't in FreeBSD-6-stable. I think it is the equivalent of the > > old emu10k1 or 2. It needs to be addressed. > > > > A pciconf shows the following > > > > none1@pci0:17:0: class=0x040100 card=0x100a1102 > > chip=0x00071102 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Creative Technology LTD.' > > device = 'C6SB0410515017656A Audigy SE' > > class = multimedia > > subclass = audio > > > > None of these generic cards seem to have been added for 2 or 3 > > years. This specific card was pr-ed a long time ago. We are really > > running behind the curve. > > > > Kent > > It is supported by /usr/ports/audio/oss in full duplex mode. I am > using it. It would be really nice to add support for a low end cards > like that into the kernel but I am not a developer. I think I saw > somewhere that there was something strange about that particular > card. OSS for a long time could not support it in full-duplex mode > necessary for VoIP. Magic happens :) Detected SiS 7012 Detected Sound Blaster Audigy LS / Live7.1 Detected OSS Transparent Virtual Mixing Architecture Now I feel like I am following the path Gary was going down a short time ago. This Audigy has no provision for analog audio. So, some CD players won't work. I rarely use FreeBSD to play CDs. I have iTunes on one of my other computers running with a kvm. Playing CDs is a <alt><ctrl><shift> 1 away. I use sound on FreeBSD to play videos from news links. There are screen blinks and flashes but no sound. I have my challenge for the day :). Right now, Amarok looks like it is playing a CD but has no sound output. Steps forward seem to be incrementaly small at times :). The KDE noise at startup is an improvement. I feel like I did a while back when patches for the emu10k2 first hit the street. When you have patches, you know the way forward may not be a straight line. Thanks, Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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