OS vs. Sound Card: The Drivers

[SUOrangeman]

Help me out here. I want to get a fairly concise summary of what drivers are out there for today's popular sound cards. You can even through in short comments on your own. Feel free to link to the drivers as well. I'd like to here about the following cards/chips:

SB Live! (all same drivers, right?)
Vortex2 (list individual card, if you want)
Santa Cruz
Acoustic Edge (and other Edges, I guess)

OSes:
Win9x/ME (should be the same)
WinNT4:
Win2K:
Linux:
BeOS:
BSD:
Solaris:
Other:

I'll get things rolling:

Diamond MX-300 + MX-25 (Vortex2)
Win9x/ME: 4.06.2048 reference; had to disable emulation for DOS in WInME (Vortex of Sound)
WinNT4: 2.06.01 (BETA) reference (Vortex of Sound)
Win2K: Shipped with Win2K lacks most features, but seems to work. 5.10.2500 (build 49) - BETA (Vortex of Sound)
Linux: 1.1.2 (Sourceforge). I am now downloading 1.1.2, previous versions worked under Mandrake.
BeOS: NONE?
BSD: ?
Solaris:?

-SUO

 

[oldfart]

I've always used the Aureal Linux au88xx-1.0.5 drivers that you can get from VOS

 

[MGMorden]

Just an addendum. Vortex 2 drivers work great for BeOS 5 and are included "out of the box" with BeOS 5 PE (well, there's no box but you know what I mean).

I've also heard that you can use the binaries from the linux drivers along with some extra source files to get that card working on FreeBSD. Never tried that myself though.

Only reason I got rid of my Vortex 2 was b/c of the lackluster Win2k and Linux drivers.

As for SB Live!, here's what I can confirm:
Windows 95, 98, Me
Windows 2000
BeOS
Linux (I use drivers included with 2.4.0 kernel sources)
FreeBSD 5 (experimental drivers in FreeBSD-current)
QNX

 

[Vrangel]

All Aureal drivers that will ever exist.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Thanks for the updates guys. Maybe we'll get rid of these "Where are my Aureal driver links?" posts one of these days?

K, what about Santa Cruz and Acoustic Edge?

-SUO

 

[bex0rs]

<< All Aureal drivers that will ever exist. >>


and then some ...

FreeBSD Drivers for Aureal Vortex Soundcards




~bex0rs

 

[bex0rs]

And not that it really matters, but I can verify that I've gotten my Vortex1 and Vortex2 soundcards to work in FreeBSD using the steps outlined in that link I just posted.

~bex0rs

 

[SUOrangeman]

Cool updates!

Here's the Windows drivers for the Philips Acoustic Edge.

-SUO