From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 22:30:11 2003 Return-Path: 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 E2ABC37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntmail.gamespy.com (mail1b.gamespy.com [207.38.1.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2FC43F3F for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troyertm@email.uc.edu) Received: from [66.42.169.208] by ntmail.contaminated.net (NTMail 7.00.0022/AX0191.00.1ce0e1da) with ESMTP id szvavsaa for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:30:09 -0700 From: Travis Troyer To: Shawn Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 01:29:15 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200308030016.49936.Charlie & <> <>> <1060042706.1585.3.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1060042706.1585.3.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308060129.02606.troyertm@email.uc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative Soundblaster Live and FreeBSD 5.1-Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 05:30:12 -0000 Thanks for the information, I've got oss now for evaluation. I was wondering if anybody knows of any quality sound cards that are well supported in FreeBSD (one that has bass/treble controls from the pcm driver, or another currently maintained driver)? On Monday 04 August 2003 07:18 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 00:20, Travis Troyer wrote: > > I have a Creative Soundblaster Live card, and I have been searching for > > information about using it with FreeBSD, but I haven't been able to come > > up with much. I was hoping somebody has had some luck recently with > > getting front and rear output with this card, or has at least been able > > to find a way to adjust the bass and treble (by default they seem > > extremely high). > > > > Any information would be appreciated. > > Your best bet for full featured drivers is http://www.opensound.com/ > > That's the only way under FreeBSD (that I know of) that you'll get a > full featured mixer (with bass / treble control) and rear outputs > properly. There are two developers that I know of that are trying to > create a better Audigy driver for FreeBSD 5.x that will have bass and > treble control, but other than that... > > The Linux ALSA Project is the only project I know of currently that has > fairly good support for front + rear outputs for the Creative Series of > cards. > > Personally, I've never cared for ALSA, and am somewhat distraught that > many future 'free' applications may use the ALSA API instead of the OSS > API, putting many of us out in the cold figuratively speaking. > Obviously, most of these applications are open source in one way or > another and can be ported to OSS, but I digress...