Allen D. Tate wrote:
Hello All,
I have a PC with a built in SoundMax audio card that I have disabled in
the BIOS because everything I have read to date is that they just don't
work with FreeBSD. For those of you who have working sound cards, would
you mind sharing the brand name and letting me know how difficult it
was to get the drivers installed configured? BTW, I'm running FreeBSD
6.0.
Thanks in advance,
Allen D. Tate
Hi Allen.
I have had generally pretty good luck with the Sound Blaster cards from
Creative. I'm not a huge fan of their hardware or their company, but so
far it has worked great with FreeBSD.
I currently have 4 systems with sound:
- Sound Blaster Augidy 2 Platinum (FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE amd64)
- VIA VT8235 Onboard Sound (FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386)
- Sound Blaster Live (FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386)
- Integrated VIA sound on laptop (FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 i386)
A list of supported cards can be found here:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html#SOUND
As well as how to get them working:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
The sound setup is real easy. I usually load the snd_driver kernel
module to find out what driver is necessary, and then if it's a fairly
fast system I'll compile that into the kernel as described in the
handbook. If it's a slower machine that I won't be recompiling the
kernel anyway, then I'll just leave the module loaded and use that.
-Mark
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