Hi,

Is this driver known to be 100% working?  I'm running stable 6.2 p6 right now 
and have this device driver installed (device sound and device snd_emu10k1 
compiled into the kernel) for use with a Creative Live! card.  Audio outputs 
work correctly, and the various players will produce audio as expected via the 
PCM control.  Line input works as well.  'mixer' works as does KDE's kmix (they 
track each other).  I've also installed the driver via kldload at boot, but it 
makes no difference.

I'm unable to successfully record audio from the line input of this Creative 
Live! card.  Either using the generic /dev/dsp as the recording source, or 
individual devices /dev/dsp0.0 and up, dspW0.0 and up, or dspr0.4/5.  There's 
just no audio there.

For the recording software I've used Krec, ffmpeg, darkice and streamTranscoder 
(the latter two feeding an icecast server).  'mixer' has its recording device 
(=rec) set to line in, and I'm feeding audio to line in (analog) and spdif in 
(digital).  There's no problem monitoring the 'line in' buss on the outputs, 
but there's no audio on the record output device.

dmesg shows the driver being installed, and cat /dev/sndstat shows it is active 
on pcm0.  If I cat /dev/sndstat with a higher verbosity (set with sysctrl) it 
shows that the record devices should be dsp0.4 and dsp0.5, line and mic in 
respectively.  The man page for snd_emu10k1 says the recording devices should 
be dspr0.4 and dspr0.5 but only if they're driving a codec directly -- I'm not 
sure what that means exactly.

There's no sound daemons like esound or artsd running during these tests.  The 
ports being tested as an input device seem to open correctly and show up as 
read devices in fstat.

I've also tried the snd_emu10kx driver to no avail.

Has anyone had experience using the Live! sound card and these drivers?  And if 
so, is recording correctly supported?

I have other sound cards available, but none of them seem to have driver 
support in FreeBSD.  One is a Delta (Midiman) 410 with an ICE1712 chip, and the 
other is a Turtle Beach TB400 (not a Santa Cruz) with Vortex AU8830A2 chip.  
Both cards have analog and digital ins and outs.

Anyone with insight on any of this?

--Bill


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