> On Sunday 03 December 2006 13:30, Anton Blajev - Valqk wrote: > > I'm interested if the SB Creative Live is fully supported too? > > Anyone that has this card and working surrond? > > It's very good card but I've never had the time to test it > with my fbsd. > > I can use fbsd on this machine from a month or so and > didn't have the time > > to test. Any comments for SB Live will be a great thing. > > The SB Live! is extremely well supported, in fact, there are > 3 drivers > supporting it: snd_emu10k1(4), audio/emu10kx in ports and the > 4front OSS > (www.opensound.com) driver. > > The emu10k1 driver doesn't have 5.1 support, but I believe > the other two do. snd_emu10kx from ports now does not support separate /dev/dsp devices for rear/center/sub channels. It plays the same sound on front and rear speakers.
The same driver in -HEAD does support "pseudo-multichannel" - you will have to provide separate stereo streams for front/rear outputs and separate mono streams for center/sub. You can't play single 5.1 stream without demultiplexing it. Your system will see your card as two (4.0), four (5.1) or five(7.1) separate pcm devices. snd_emu10kx will not be MFC-ed into RELENG_6. I can update audio/emu10kx port with "multichannel" driver, if you want to try it under 6.x. Please also keep in mind that there are two different sound card families both labeled 'SB Live': - old one, with emu10k1 DSP, is supported by snd_emu10kx / snd_emu10k1 drivers, mostly 4.0 sound - new one, without DSP, usually labeled 'Live 24' or similar. This cards are not supported by snd_emu10kx or snd_emu10k1 Yuriy. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
