Derrick Edwards wrote:
That sucks because it says on the box "Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit". Is there a better way of picking one?
The sblive driver oly supports rather early models of SB Live and SB Audigy cards. Since Creative keeps revising their hardware rather rapidly, it might not be easy finding hardware that works with the available drivers. Usually Creative uses the older revisions of their chips in the budget-products, so I'd start looking there.
I may not make friends for suggestion this, but the OpenSound drivers have worked nicely for me. I have an older (i.e. natively supported) SB LIVE! card, but was having minor problems with it after upgrading to 5.3. Being short on time, I downloaded the appropriate driver from http://www.opensound.com/. It works nicely, and allows me to use features of the card that I wouldn't be able to utilize with the native snd_emu10k1(4) module.
The latest release of OpenSound drivers are free for non-commercial use, with a caveat: Supposedly some sort of message will be played on your card when it's idle. I have no idea what the sound is, as my sound card is never idle thanks to xmms.
Good luck, -Ash _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
