Re: 5.1 sound card recommendation

[Paul Irofti]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:23:52PM +0300, Nickolay A. Burkov wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> Do somebody have success with 5.1 sound ?
> If so, please recommend PCI Sound Card to work with OpenBSD 4.2(-CURRENT).
> 
> I have MARC'ed a bit but similar messages were > 1 year ago.
> I'd like to think that something have been changed..
> 
> Thank you for your time.
 
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.