On Oct 12, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On today's disc drives, you typically don't have a > 3.5mm headphone connector for direct listening. Also > some sound cards (unlike most onboard sound chips) > have the ability to connect the "CD audio" wire inside > the machine. This feature is obsolete, but still works. > It's typically not part of laptop designs.
A fair number of motherboards with integrated audio will take the analog audio output from a CD/DVD drive; the better ones will also accept a 3-pin digital SP/DIF connection as well. Even if they don't, however, it's not uncommon for them to have audio connectivity in the form of a microphone input buried within a 10-pin extension header (AC'97 and Intel's HD Audio front panel connector), rather than have a 4-pin or 3-pin connector which matches the cable which came with the CD/DVD drive. Anyway, none of the above should not be needed with modern SATA devices-- digital audio data goes directly over the SATA cable without a need for a separate audio cable. Any laptop (which isn't obsolete) would use this route. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"