On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 01:41:11PM +0200, Nicholas Wieland wrote:
>
> Hi all.
> I'm a FreeBSD user from abuot two years now, and I love it.
> I have a machine in my home network that I use as a "multimedia
> station" - i.e. something that my family can use to listen to music or
> watch a DVD without specific knowledge.
> I'm very happy with it, and my family too, so thanks to the FreeBSD
> hackers for such a piece of software !
> Now, I'd really like to try the official emu10k1 driver for my Audigy
> 2 (now I'm using http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/), but firstly
I thought the emu10k1 is only used up to the audigy 1 and they were using
a completely new chip for the audigy 2. Is this not true?
> I'd like to ask if there's something like the emuctrl tool that ships
> with the unofficial driver.
> The "problem" is that I have an Inspire system - 6 speakers + 1
> subwoofer - and I don't know how to control the volume of every single
> speaker.
I believe freebsd uses a nearly identical api to the oss drivers on
linux which means that a mixer has a limited number of controls, about
20 I think, and each control has a specific name so a device that has 4
generic line ins can use line1, line2, line3, but may be forced to call
the 4th one aux because only three of the controls are named line. In
Linux, I know some drivers use multiple mixer (ugh) if they need more
controls. Also, I think the dsp devices are also limited to two
channels so linux's emu10k1 uses /dev/dsp0, /dev/dsp1, /dev/dsp2 for 5.1
surround sound on the audigy. Is all this true on freebsd as well?
Now the alsa drivers for linux get rid of all these restrictions and
provide a much better api using a standard library instead of raw
ioctl(). Is there any work for something similar on FreeBSD?
>
> Does FreeBSD support a beast like mine ?
>
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> TIA,
> ngw
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