Allen D. Tate wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a PC with a built in SoundMax audio card that I have disabled in > the BIOS because everything I have read to date is that they just don't > work with FreeBSD. For those of you who have working sound cards, would > you mind sharing the brand name and letting me know how difficult it > was to get the drivers installed & configured? BTW, I'm running FreeBSD > 6.0. > > Thanks in advance, > Allen D. Tate
Hi Allen. I have had generally pretty good luck with the Sound Blaster cards from Creative. I'm not a huge fan of their hardware or their company, but so far it has worked great with FreeBSD. I currently have 4 systems with sound: - Sound Blaster Augidy 2 Platinum (FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE amd64) - VIA VT8235 Onboard Sound (FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386) - Sound Blaster Live (FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386) - Integrated VIA sound on laptop (FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 i386) A list of supported cards can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html#SOUND As well as how to get them working: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html The sound setup is real easy. I usually load the "snd_driver" kernel module to find out what driver is necessary, and then if it's a fairly fast system I'll compile that into the kernel as described in the handbook. If it's a slower machine that I won't be recompiling the kernel anyway, then I'll just leave the module loaded and use that. -Mark -- GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941)
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