On 8/4/05, hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:54 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 8/3/05, hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a sound card for the PCIX bus? > > > > You will not be able to find a sound card that's PCI-X. A 16-bit / > 44KHz PCM audio stream is something like 1MB/s and the 32-bit / 33MHz > PCI bus can support 133MB/s. I don't think their will ever be a PCI-X > based sound card.... You can use a normal PCI card in a PCI-X slot so > just buy an el-cheapo sound can an stick pop it in there.... We are > talking about PCI-X and not PCI-eXpress, right? > > I don't know which bus I have for sure, but the card slots have > a non-removable bridge in them which prevents me from inserting > the sound card I have. > > BTW others have suggested various schemes for using the internal > speaker. (THANKS) I have tried their suggestions and they work. > Not loud enough of course, but I may be able to solve that. >
For the record.... Here's what PCI, PCI-X, and PCIe x16 buses look like: http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=xeon64mb&page=4 I also found a sound card that will work in a PCI-X slot and in FreeBSD. It's a "CREATIVE Sound Blaster Live! 30SB041000000 24-bit 96KHz" and it uses the emu10k1 FreeBSD driver (man snd_emu10k1), you can find it over at newegg.com for $29 + $5 S&H http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102177 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
