SoundBlaster Audigy Question

Benjamin Lutz benlutz at datacomm.ch
Thu Oct 6 18:51:44 PDT 2005


Sean Murphy wrote:
> I have an onboard soundcard for my FreeBSD box and I was thinking of
> getting the new Audigy card.  Does the FreeBSD drivers for the Audigy
> take advantage of surround sound, EAX, digital connections, or number of
> channels? Or does the soundcard operate at a more basic level ie. stereo
> sound no hardware acceleration etc.

It'll be supported in stereo mode only. There is an alternative driver
called emu10kx which supports the other channels and digital outs. I'm
not aware of any FreeBSD software that'd know how to make use of things
like EAX, so not having that supported by the driver won't be a big loss :)

> Is there any reason to have such a high end soundcard in a FreeBSD system?

Feature-wise, no. The audigy does give you better sound quality (eg,
less noise) than cheapo cards though.

Cheers
Benjamin
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