I need sound card recommendation

Predrag Punosevac punosevac at math.arizona.edu
Sat Aug 25 22:20:08 PDT 2007


Dear ALL,
After reading 120 pages of Open Sound System manual (the one compiled 
from ports) and playing with my audio card for almost a week.
 I came to a conclusion that my present audio card Audiology SE is not 
fully supported (duplex mode) even with the  OSS  compiled from ports. 
(Or I am just dumb to set it properly).  Hence,  I can not use VoIP 
which is  really  important to me.
 
So  I would like to get a recommendation  for  a sound card. In 
particular, I would like to get a recommendation from people running fully
functional VoIP (Skype or SIP) using the sound cards fully recognized by 
FreeBSD available drivers (I do not want to mess any more with
OSS from ports).

The easiest thing for me would be to buy probably Sound Blaster Live 
($30) but I over heard that Creative has change the chip set and that 
the kernel has troubles with new chip even without duplex mode. I hope 
that this is a wrong information.

If you are using VoIP would you be so kind to tell me your audio card, 
the driver you use and possibly set up (at least if you are using 6.2 
Stable or 7.0 Current and if you are using generic kernel and loading 
drivers, or what kind of custom kernel should I built)

Thanks a lot
Predrag



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