Re: Sound cards

2013-06-03 Thread Waitman Gobble
use on board sound. not sure there will alot of new and exciting sound cards coming soon, its kind of at the limit of pcm. it will be totally very cool when sound cards do dsd / 5.7 mhz / 1 bit sampling rates, but thats still a ways off i think. i use a creative x-fi card pci-e, the blue one

Re: Sound cards

2013-06-03 Thread Waitman Gobble
. I've combed newegg and have to say I never realized how crappy the sound cards have become - that used to be a big thing back in the day! Could any of you who have installed something of -recent- vintage which worked well post the make/model? I just need something for basic audio, nothing

Sound cards

2013-06-02 Thread mike miskulin
Hi all - I may be building a system which does not have any onboard sounds thus need to find either a pci-e or usb solution which will work with FreeBSD. I've combed newegg and have to say I never realized how crappy the sound cards have become - that used to be a big thing back in the day

Re: Multiple sound cards snd_hda

2008-11-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in -current supports multiple sound cards? I am looking to put 3 of Encore ENM232-8VIA into a FreeBSD 8 PC any help would be appreciated Sam Fourman Jr. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Multiple sound cards snd_hda

2008-11-15 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you make sound studio or just connecting lots of gsm phones to asterisk PBX using chan_celliax? ;) I am attempting to setup a multi room(zone) home audio(mp3) system it would be ideal to have 9 zones so I am thinking

Multiple sound cards snd_hda

2008-11-14 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
hello, can anyone verify that the new snd_hda driver in -current supports multiple sound cards? I am looking to put 3 of Encore ENM232-8VIA into a FreeBSD 8 PC any help would be appreciated Sam Fourman Jr. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Device drivers for DAT-based sound cards

2008-08-15 Thread John McCabe
Hello, Is there any person(s) developing a driver for DAT-chipset-based Creative sound cards? If this is the wrong mailing list to ask this question, please tell me which is the proper list. Regards, John McCabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Realtek ALC262 and Via ENVY24 sound cards for rel. 6.2

2007-12-13 Thread Andrey Slusar
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:10:11 -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Lee Shackelford wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. For FreeBSD release 6.2, does anyone know if there is any simpler way of using sound cards containing either a Realtek ALC262 chip or a Via ENVY24 chip than installing

Realtek ALC262 and Via ENVY24 sound cards for rel. 6.2

2007-12-12 Thread Lee Shackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. For FreeBSD release 6.2, does anyone know if there is any simpler way of using sound cards containing either a Realtek ALC262 chip or a Via ENVY24 chip than installing the Linux emulator, and then using the alsa a.p.i.? Many thanks. Yours truly, L e e _ S h

Re: Realtek ALC262 and Via ENVY24 sound cards for rel. 6.2

2007-12-12 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Lee Shackelford wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. For FreeBSD release 6.2, does anyone know if there is any simpler way of using sound cards containing either a Realtek ALC262 chip or a Via ENVY24 chip than installing the Linux emulator, and then using the alsa a.p.i.? Many thanks

Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

2006-08-31 Thread matti k
different music play in different rooms (living, family, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably

Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

2006-08-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, family, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts

Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

2006-08-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts? In principle, there's no problem. But most software will only drive

Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

2006-08-30 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts? In principle

Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

2006-08-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
in different rooms (living, family, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts

Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

2006-08-29 Thread Philip Hallstrom
the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts? -philip

Supported six-channel sound cards

2005-04-13 Thread José de Paula Rodrigues
Greetings all, As a desktop FreeBSD user, I'd like to know if there is a list of supported 5.1 sound cards somewhere. The Holy Handbook mentions some supported cards, yes, but it doesn't say whether they are supported in 5.1 mode or only plain stereo. My current card, an onboard nForce (A7N8X-E

Re: Supported six-channel sound cards

2005-04-13 Thread Chuck Robey
José de Paula Rodrigues wrote: Greetings all, As a desktop FreeBSD user, I'd like to know if there is a list of supported 5.1 sound cards somewhere. The Holy Handbook mentions some supported cards, yes, but it doesn't say whether they are supported in 5.1 mode or only plain stereo. My current card

Re: Howto make one of two sound cards default?

2003-11-06 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Alexey V. Litvinov: My researches point me to /dev/dsp and i'm tried to make ln -s /dev/dsp1.0 /dev/dsp Just tell your applications that the sound device is /dev/dsp1.0. For example, here is the config of the Enlightenment Sound Daemon: [esd] auto_spawn=1 spawn_options=-terminate

Re: Two sound cards

2003-11-06 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Alexey V. Litvinov: I have two sound cards and FreeBSD 5.0 [...] And wants to make /dev/dsp point to pcm1 by default instead of pcm0. How to do this? Try to use /dev/dsp1.0. Cheers, -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Howto make one of two sound cards default?

2003-11-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexey V. Litvinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Problem: I have two sound cards one inserted into PCI slot and one integrated into motherboard, all cards detected and working fine. First is pcm0 and second is pcm1. Since first (external) detected on boot first it is default to sound output

Two sound cards

2003-10-31 Thread Alexey V. Litvinov
Hello All, I have two sound cards and FreeBSD 5.0 cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: AudioPCI ES1373-8 at io 0xd000 irq 11 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default) pcm1: VIA VT8235 at io 0xe400 irq 10 (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) And wants to make /dev/dsp point

Howto make one of two sound cards default?

2003-10-30 Thread Alexey V. Litvinov
Hello All!, Problem: I have two sound cards one inserted into PCI slot and one integrated into motherboard, all cards detected and working fine. First is pcm0 and second is pcm1. Since first (external) detected on boot first it is default to sound output, but i wish to use second (integrated

2 sound cards, no sound, no /dev/dsp

2003-08-23 Thread Alexander Farber
/dev/audio1.2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00030014 Aug 23 22:07 /dev/audio1.3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00040014 Aug 23 22:07 /dev/audio1.4 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 0x00050014 Aug 23 22:07 /dev/audio1.5 So the system seems to recognize both of my sound cards, but how can I use

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ? Yes, give it a try. I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0. Was

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Ok, so question: What's the simplest and easiest way to simply check to see if a given sound card is working or not? I gather that it is _not_ as simple as just cat'ing some .mp3 file to one of the /dev/dsp* device files,

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Also, try doing 'cat /dev/sndstat' to make sure that pcm really does understand your card. OK, did that, and I get: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed Devices: pcm0: SB16 DSP 4.13 at io 0x220 irq 5 drq 1:5 bufsz 4096d (1p/1r/0v channels duplex) Does that all

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that you can dump audio file in the 'au' format directly to devices. A test au format file can be found on http://www.cti.ecp.fr/documents/a_sound.au (This was linked to from

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-04 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ? Yes, give it a try. I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. I cat'd the file to /dev/dsp0. Was that correct? Sorry Ronald, I don't know what

Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-03 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Greetings, I have to confess massive ignorance about sound cards. I haven't used these things much in the past, if at all. Anyway, I just installed 4.7-RELEASE on a new system that's got an ancient and crusty ISA Sound Blaster 16 PnP card (that I bought second-hand) installed in it. I also

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-03 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: The card is now clearly recognized on boot up, however I'm still not 100% that it's working. I tried using a couple of CD player utilities and no sound came out if the speakers. The card will only act as a CD-player if it is directly connected to the CD-player