Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 03:46:39 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the "sound" sound solution for 3.3R? Message-ID: <199911070246.DAA28984@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Robert Withrow wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> I've re-tried the OSS stuff and it doesn't work just like it
> has never worked. I don't have the archaic cards supported
> by the old voxware stuff. PNP doesn't seem to find the PCI-based
> Yamaha PCI-XG chips on my MB.
Yamaha does not provide programming documentation and specs
for their soundcards and chips -- they sell it for _big_ money
to other companies. I know this because I happened to ask them
for the PCI-XG specs not so long ago... This is also the
reason why the OSS driver for the PCI-XG costs extra money
($30, as compared to the "normal" OSS software which is just
$20).
For the above reason, there is no native support in FreeBSD for
the PCI-XG (or in any other open-source OS, for that matter).
I'm afraid you have to buy OSS, which is supposed to support
it, or buy a soundcard from a vendor who is more open-source-
friendly.
Regards
Oliver
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