Track down Sound Blaster models

[TerryP]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_L ... el_Numbers

useful, and for the most part finding the chipsets should be possible. IMHO Creative Labs makes crap but its about the only thing I've seen in stores :-(

The Creative Labs Sound Blaster! Value I used to have, made an MP5 sound like a bubblegum ball gun haha. At least on an Audigy 4 it sounds like a SMG.

[marc]

I just couldn`t help myself ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wwKxbK4kgvw :lol:

[TerryP]

Hahahahaa

[Apatewna]

Sound Blaster products have been the only ones causing trouble (BSODs) with genuine drivers on more than 20 different machines I've seen.

I specifically owned a card that refused to use the genuine driver and gave out the dreaded "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error on to completely different machines and a variety of windows operating systems. It just plain sucked. Generic windows drivers where the only ones to work.

Whenever a frined asks me for a professional soundcard I send them out to buy anything except SB. I don't know if Yamaha or Roland still make soundcards, but back then when we where using Adlib and SB1 they were ruling the world in MIDI quality playback and synthesis

[TerryP]

I thought it was only my machine that had errors like that regulary Apatewna.

TBH, my sound card works _best_ on PC/FreeBSD with emu10kx or Ubuntus ALSA /w emu10k1 drivers. I usually reinstall the Win32 driver every few months to get around sound period failures or un explainable setting changes.

[cysquatch]

So is it in overall agreement that soundblaster cards will be a pain in the neck on bsd then? I have it running alright on debian etch atm but i could switch to onboard nvidia nforce2 if need be.

[antik]

So is it in overall agreement that soundblaster cards will be a pain in the neck on bsd then? I have it running alright on debian etch atm but i could switch to onboard nvidia nforce2 if need be.

I got "Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 SB0100"- excellent sound quality and never crashed under FreeBSD. Every other built in sound card sounds like crap compared to this one.

[Solarin]

I have an Audigy 2 working 100% over here on the stock system. Sounds great 8)

[cysquatch]

Thats great to hear. I have an SBLive and was kind of wondering. Its 24 bit I guess.

So in the handbook am I reading it right? I have to recompile the kernel with appropriate sound module included?
I got the usual no /dev/dsp message I always got on a system, This time it's a desktop so i might want to tackle the problem this time around

[TerryP]

drivers should be loaded through modules and /boot/loader.conf can load modules at startup.