On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:06:48AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jul 30 04:19:31, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:55:01PM +0200, jean-francois wrote: > > > It's rather an old card. > > > > well, you have an Audigy2 card. the first generation SB Live! cards > > mostly work well. I've tried a few different board models. Audigy > > cards have a known problem with volume control. I have never > > personally tried any type of Audigy2 card. apparently the Audigy2 > > Value cards work ... > > > > > For the momdne I run OpenBSD 4.4 > > > > I think if you upgrade to 4.5 and get the onboard device detected > > you will be happier > > > > note that the emu(4) driver doesn't really take advantage of the special > > features (filters and such) of the emu chips. nor does emu(4) support > > multichannel, "pure digital" (s/pdif output), or high resolution (> 16 > > bits) modes. > > Is there any card/driver combination that does support higher resolutions? > The azalia manpage (I have a Intel 82801GB HD Audio actually) says in BUGS:
azalia(4) and envy(4) > There is no way to use 20-bit or 24-bit precision > because of a limitation of the MI audio framework. > > Is "the MI audio framework" the same thing that's described in audio(4)? yeah, that statement is outdated. imo, kinda dumb it was there in the first place. if a feature is not supported due to a limitation of an upper layer, is it really a bug of the lower layer? -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
