From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 22 22:29:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CE8BC6 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm20-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm20-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFBA8FC0C for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.51] by nm20.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Nov 2012 22:29:33 -0000 Received: from [217.146.188.152] by tm4.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Nov 2012 22:29:33 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp110.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Nov 2012 22:29:33 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1353623373; bh=dpJtSAePFWjPRBb3koEY4J35spNuB0YcWvrOonOB5IA=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=XxtrDQyibMyGD0s69uv35OP0lFC1dQQqsh2ux92ER3B7VCE5+VkDIsai89InujLdunfvSrMoaXgHQ6dQsLVwoGGkYV0FKfOiFUdQNLn6ypxSLrTkmL4lKX7R2iyQYPaRxoR7S/fwMF9puVS90SC5bvqcUur4F1Ak6Oi7jSlhehM= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 424695.13962.bm@smtp110.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: J_3uPgMVM1nfz7kORwHCq3UhPVKwl_WTCfypLNJc2g0L_Dt O_e6CYIRBCLswY2bNz.OajIGIU5c2j1KhNzw4x4IOYkkQEgc7nguah37ycc7 IQ9HyR99Phz5qpj17UNWIP_REIY4dS_ixgYxNxvmLDlsySL5ycMOEskuSZRn VWxQykm_LL4eDzbCn.phguz7yWnIaUS6pAXeFatvTfk81VNRRL3.1i7awLMQ ZFnQd_wmzWgnGJnPpxfDbh9yzAOjG6v5IzaHY3hdh_mTdr8voppDwdP3ktcK H9dFxNO0sj3ww.ygd5hCMMt1gTT.81NQhVO1udpxjjb9Nhhzzy1SGUNzh9.e tpwbm0xz67MEP0JKqc4.56UlDjblu1kKec7jLMxmU8fJ7mFYQyz.7K6.GJnG NB.3xczgCuai5eNVXoBIkE8fxQC14NHthteP_rgdXQ3ztMnFutQD_Banhaw1 4Z82hGOgV7pKCwET.Oenx.BQRGdYr8sqSQ3vWTrDE0MS_l.T4vA-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [92.224.210.186] (ralf.mardorf@92.224.210.186 with login) by smtp110.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2012 14:29:33 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1353623365.2366.8.camel@q> Subject: RME audio card user new to FreeBSD From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:29:25 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:29:36 -0000 Hi, due to technical issues this mail perhaps was sent multiple times to the list, if so, then I apologize. It wasn't in the archive. I've got a few newbie requests. As a Linux user for a long time, interested in audio engineering, I've got bad luck with a RME HDSPe AIO audio card. Under Linux only ADAT channels 1 and 2 can be used. It's written that a FreeBSD driver does support all 8 ADAT IOs. The CPU is an Athlon 64-bit dual-core. IIUC there aren't issues regarding to 64-bit architecture, so I should download and install ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso and if I'll use an already installed Linux GRUB legacy, I don't need a free primary partition. Is there something I should take care of during installation, if audio is important? Until now I didn't read much, but I already noticed that there are Wikis similar to Linux Wikis, such as http://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound . Any hints are welcome. FWIW on this machine there's the RME audio card and in addition there're two Envy24 cards installed. Regards, Ralf