From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 18:14:50 2002 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 6197437B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E2343E3B for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:14:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tapeworm@insekta.org) Received: from [12.246.29.145] (helo=domina.insekta.org) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 17nUBS-0007kW-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:14:46 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:12:38 -0700 From: tapeworm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I make my Soundblaster Live! work under FreeBSD? Message-Id: <20020906181238.73a98af2.tapeworm@insekta.org> In-Reply-To: <20020906174618.O81315-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> References: <200209061657.g86GvrT68126@chkno.net> <20020906174618.O81315-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> Organization: the insekta organization X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 i don't think freebsd is simply a "server OS" at all. it is, admittedly, lacking in features/ports when it comes to multimedia work..but for everything else, it runs beautifully. there's a wealth of development tools, web oriented stuff, file sharing clients, etc. that make for a very nice desktop/home workstation system. for my music and gaming i still have a windows system, but for everything else, i use freebsd. when i get better at programming, i'd like to start writing audio apps for freebsd. as of now, i just cross-use certain apps. record something in spiralsynth or autozen, zap it over to the win2k machine, and tweak it/sequence it there. - erk! On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:48:02 -0600 (MDT) bsd@xtremedev.com wrote: > > How does one switch the SB Live into digital-out mode? It boots > > up in analog-out mode. It works fine if I plug headphones or old > > speakers in, but I have nice, expensive speakers that won't emit > > sound until it's in digital mode. > > Out of curiosity, why would you use a server OS on an obviously > multimedia machine? I hadn't realized FreeBSD had progressed to the > point of appealing to people with a high audio fidelity in mind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message