A few BSD questions

[ProviaFan]

This may be more appropriate for GH, but I don't think anybody there would probably know the answer, so here goes...

Does NetBSD, or any of the BSDs, for that matter, support the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! cards? I've got one, and (yes, I know *BSD supports AC97, but that sucks, and I'm not going to use it) I really want to use my SBLive. The official sites for the *BSDs seem to indicate that the SBLive is not supported, but I've heard from someone that they swore that their friend was using a SBLive with FreeBSD. Can anyone clarify this for me? Thanks.

 

[n0cmonkey]

OpenBSD: Yes.
NetBSD: No.
FreeBSD: No.
Any of these OSes under OpenSound drivers: Yes.

 

[ProviaFan]

Thanks! Now I just need to figure out how to get around in NetBSD (it's not quite as much like Linux as I'd supposed), and Read The Fine Manual to see how to install software with this famous ports system that everybody talks about.

 

[Sunner]

Kinda funny that NetBSD, whose call to fame is portability, doesn't support such a common soundcard, while OpenBSD does.

Oh and just FYI, OpenBSD picked up the SBLive in one of my boxes right away after installation.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Originally posted by: Sunner
Kinda funny that NetBSD, whose call to fame is portability, doesn't support such a common soundcard, while OpenBSD does.

Oh and just FYI, OpenBSD picked up the SBLive in one of my boxes right away after installation.

Toasters don't have Sound Cards

How does the emu driver in OpenBSD differ from doing kldload snd_emu10k1 in FreeBSD?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode

Originally posted by: Sunner
Kinda funny that NetBSD, whose call to fame is portability, doesn't support such a common soundcard, while OpenBSD does.

Oh and just FYI, OpenBSD picked up the SBLive in one of my boxes right away after installation.

Toasters don't have Vid Cards

How does the emu driver in OpenBSD differ from doing kldload snd_emu10k1 in FreeBSD?

Well, the Live is a soundcard, and wouldn't it be nice to have a toaster with a soundcard so that it could give you one of those nice sounds when your toast is done?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode

Originally posted by: Sunner
Kinda funny that NetBSD, whose call to fame is portability, doesn't support such a common soundcard, while OpenBSD does.

Oh and just FYI, OpenBSD picked up the SBLive in one of my boxes right away after installation.

Toasters don't have Vid Cards

How does the emu driver in OpenBSD differ from doing kldload snd_emu10k1 in FreeBSD?

WTF does that do?

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Well, the Live is a soundcard, and wouldn't it be nice to have a toaster with a soundcard so that it could give you one of those nice sounds when your toast is done?

I ment to say Toasters don't have snd cards, but I just got finished reading an article on video cards. Cut me some slack, I posted that at 6:30 am

WTF does that do?

If you're referring to kldload snd_emu10k1 it loads sound drivers for the emu10k1 chip.

I have a CMI chipset so I either type kldload snd_cmi after boot, or add 'snd_cmi_load="YES"' to my to /boot/loader.conf.

 

[ProviaFan]

Hmm, so apparently OpenBSD has drivers built in, and FreeBSD has some kind of module that it can use, that is free. And all the BSDs, plus others, support the SBLive with the OSS driver (which is not free). Am I understanding this correctly? Well, I suppose NetBSD is not the OS of choice for my main rig right now then. Oh well, perhaps I shall try FreeBSD or OpenBSD instead.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode

Well, the Live is a soundcard, and wouldn't it be nice to have a toaster with a soundcard so that it could give you one of those nice sounds when your toast is done?

I ment to say Toasters don't have snd cards, but I just got finished reading an article on video cards. Cut me some slack, I posted that at 6:30 am

WTF does that do?

If you're referring to kldload snd_emu10k1 it loads sound drivers for the emu10k1 chip.

I have a CMI chipset so I either type kldload snd_cmi after boot, or add 'snd_cmi_load="YES"' to my to /boot/loader.conf.

Thanks, I havent dealth with FreeBSD and sound cards in a long time, and defintely wont for another long time...