From owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Fri Jun 17 19:42:18 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AACC4A78E32 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: from quine.pinyon.org (quine.pinyon.org [65.101.5.249]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8BC392EC9 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix, from userid 122) id 4305016030D; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:42:17 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on quine.pinyon.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from feyerabend.n1.pinyon.org (h5.esturion.net [65.101.5.253]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DEB2A160185 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:42:14 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: recs for TOSLINK stable/10 PCI audio card To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <72691544-f4a4-71d1-3aa4-88ee187fecbc@pinyon.org> From: "Russell L. Carter" Message-ID: <746bc8fb-eeba-6510-cfb5-4490f6d76b44@pinyon.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:42:14 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <72691544-f4a4-71d1-3aa4-88ee187fecbc@pinyon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:42:18 -0000 On 06/16/16 20:21, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > Hi, > > I am deleting an otherwise working fine linux server from my home > multimedia setup, and replacing it with a stable/10 box. I would > appreciate recommendations for a decent TOSLINK output PCI audio card > that is compatible with stable/10. The current linux box has a Xonar > DG working great, but this is apparently not supported in stable/10 (I > do see https://github.com/shamazmazum/xonar-dragonfly, which alas has > no xonar_dg mention). (Any ideas why at least the initial xonar > support has not been merged? I hate to spend time spelunking the > working fine linux driver if there is something else going on.) So digging through the offerings on newegg, I am not seeing anything obvious that provides a TOSLINK connector and is *not* C-Media. Anybody know different? Hoping... hoping... OTOH, the linux driver sure seems well written: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/sound/pci/oxygen Is a clean room (re)implementation really required to avoid the license issue? Thanks, Russell