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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:29:20 -0700 (MST)
From:      John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Update of FAQ 69 ?
Message-ID:  <14177.21888.141388.22686@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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Hello, I'm assuming this is the right list to talk about updates to the
WWW docs as well.

I was wondering if it was time to update FAQ69 w.r.t. the list of sound
cards that are supported? It (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ69.html#69) states:

  FreeBSD supports the SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16, 
  Pro Audio Spectrum 16, AdLib and Gravis UltraSound sound cards. There is
  also limited support for MPU-401 and compatible MIDI cards. Cards conforming
  to the Microsoft Sound System specification are also supported through the
  pcm driver.

I have a Creative Labs PCI128 which *is* supported with the pcm driver mostly
due to it being an Ensoniq chip. I don't know if this falls under the 
category of "conforming to the Micro$oft $ound $y$tem spec." or not, but
regardless, it would probably be informative for people investigating
FreeBSD to know what these cards are. One would imagine that most people
wouldn't know if their sound card was MSS compatible (heck, I don't know if
*MY* sound card is ... I just know "it works under Win98").

We might also want to mention in this FAQ entry about "mixer" and that
volumes might be set to 0 (thereby avoiding the FAQ of "sound doesn't work!"
and it only being a volume problem).

I would be willing to accumulate sound card info for this FAQ (maybe by 
sending a request for info onto -hackers and/or -current) if it would
help.

-Jr

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