Paul Irofti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Short answer, get another OS. Windows would be best for amateur sound > recording/processing/listening. I don't think the BSDs nor Linux we'll > see real 5.1 support for a good period of time. ALSA is trying > something at the moment but its very specific and broken most of the > time, a hassle really.
OSS4 works just fine, even with 7.1. And it has been open-sourced. Maybe someone could port it to OpenBSD? It has already been ported to FreeBSD. And there are drivers for ALSA that support 5.1, without an NDA being signed. IIRC, back when I used ALSA, my Intel HDA worked with all channels. And it definitely does with OSS4.1. -- Jonathan
