Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 01:29:15 -0500 From: Travis Troyer <troyertm@email.uc.edu> To: Shawn <drevil@warpcore.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative Soundblaster Live and FreeBSD 5.1-Release Message-ID: <200308060129.02606.troyertm@email.uc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1060042706.1585.3.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> References: <200308030016.49936.Charlie & <> <>> <1060042706.1585.3.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com>
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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...
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