Hi folks, I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 stable. I got my sound blaster live 5.1 sound card working with FreeBSD by adding device sound device emu10k1 in the kernel configuration file. However the quality of sound produced is of poor quality (not very clear) as compared to that produced under Linux 2.6 series kernel. I remember having similar quality sound when OSS was used with Linux Kernel. Is this poor quality because of OSS ? Is ALSA ported to FreeBSD ? Or am I just using wrong driver ? Tejas Kokje University of Southern California
Tejas Kokje wrote:> Hi folks, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 stable. I got my sound > blaster live 5.1 sound card working with FreeBSD by adding > > device sound > device emu10k1 > > >hmmm... the 5.3 handbook has : device "snd_emu10k1" or /boot/loader.conf : snd_emu10k1_load="YES" regards Mark
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:07:03AM -0800, Tejas Kokje wrote:> Hi folks, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 stable. I got my sound > blaster live 5.1 sound card working with FreeBSD by adding > > device sound > device emu10k1 > > in the kernel configuration file. However the quality of > sound produced is of poor quality (not very clear) as compared to that > produced under Linux 2.6 series kernel. > > I remember having similar quality sound when OSS was used > with Linux Kernel. Is this poor quality because of OSS ? > Is ALSA ported to FreeBSD ? Or am I just using wrong driver ?I'm using latest OSS from opensound.org and the sound quality is perfect. -ip -- He who laughs last -- probably didn't get the joke.
Hi, Do you mean that the sound seems unclear all the time? I've also had some problems with sound on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, but a different kind of. Sometimes I hear crakings while playing mp3 files with XMMS, although my computer's load is very low. I use "snd_emu10k1" sound module as you do with a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1. There is another driver that may be worth trying here: http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/. I'll give it a pick when I get more time. Cheers, Olivier
Tejas Kokje wrote:> in the kernel configuration file. However the quality of > sound produced is of poor quality (not very clear) as compared to that > produced under Linux 2.6 series kernel.Maybe check your mixer settings ("mixer" at the console)... Patrick