Re: Anyone using Xonar Essence ST sound cards?

In reply to: Lars Tunkrans : "Re: Anyone using Xonar Essence ST sound cards?"
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From: Christos Margiolis <christos_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:24:13 UTC

On Wed Oct 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM CEST, Lars Tunkrans wrote:
> HI
>
>      ASUS    sells    Xonar  AE    and  Xonar SE    today .
>     I  own  a  Xonar  AE     card.    Xonar  Essens ST/STX    is  a 
> previous  model  ( in  the  region  of  12 years  old )  highend audio  
> card.
>     I dont  know enough  to  to  say  if  there  is  any similarities  
> between  the  Xonar  models.
>     The  driver  you  found  would  be  worthwile  to  work  on  if its 
> usable  with  Xonar SE / Xonar AE.
>
>     //Lars

If you could test this and let me know, that'd be great.

> On 01/10/2025 16:53, Christos Margiolis wrote:
>> I stumbled upon a PR [1] a few days ago about a driver for those sound
>> cards. The author was not interested in working on it any more, as he
>> does not own those cards nowadays. Looking at its code, it seems like a
>> relatively old codebase, so I suppose it should be working fine.
>>
>> If any of you owns a card like this, please let me know. I would be
>> interested in importing this directly to the base system, instead of
>> letting it rot in the PR.
>>
>> Christos
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245772
>>

Christos