FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes is wrong.

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Thu Jan 19 01:01:22 UTC 2012


On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Adam Kirchhoff wrote:

> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html
>
> This section is correct:
>
> [i386,amd64] The snd_emu10kx(4) driver supports the following sound cards:
>> Creative Sound Blaster Live! (EMU10K1 Chipset). Both PCM and MIDI
>> interfaces are available.
>> Creative Sound Blaster Audigy (CA0100 and CA0101 Chipset). PCM and two
>> MIDI interfaces available.
>> Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4
>> (CA0102 Chipset). PCM support is limited to 48kHz/16 bit stereo (192kHz/24
>> bit part of this chipset is not supported).
>> Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value (CA0108 Chipset). PCM support is
>> limited to 48kHz/16 bit stereo (192kHz/24 bit part of this chipset is not
>> supported). There is no MIDI support for this card.
>
>
>
> This section is wrong:
>
>
> The snd_emu10kx(4) driver does support the following sound cards (although
>> they have names similar to some supported ones):
>> Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit, identified by FreeBSD as
>> Creative Sound Blaster Audigy LS / ES, identified by FreeBSD as
>> All other Creative sound cards with -DAT chipsets.
>> All Creative X-Fi series sound cards.
>
>
>
> None of those cards are supported by snd_emu10kx (according to the man
> page, and in my own personal experience). I believe a "does support" should
> read "does not support".

Looks like the second one should be "does not support", yes.

Thanks for spotting it; hopefully I can prod a committer into making the 
change.

-Ben Kaduk



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