On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:12:38PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Nickolay A. Burkov wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > > > Do somebody have success with 5.1 sound ? > > If so, please recommend PCI Sound Card to work with OpenBSD > > 4.2(-CURRENT). > > > > I have MARC'ed a bit but similar messages were > 1 year ago. > > I'd like to think that something have been changed.. > > > > Thank you for your time. > > For some strange reason I recall reading about some work being done on > the Sound Blaster "Audigy" cards. Many of those cards are 5.1, 6.1 or > 7.1 surround sound. > > A quick search on "openbsd audigy" shows we've had support since 3.9 but > I'm not sure if this includes the surround sound features, or if it's > just two channel? >
Older audigy cards based on EMU10K1 chips are supposed to work with the emu(4) driver, it's still two channel. Newer cards based on CA0106 will not work because there's no driver for the chip. The last time I've asked creative for documentation they didn't reply; since then, I've lost interest in these cards. -- Alexandre
