What is a recommended soundcard for FreeBSD?

[Ricardo Jesus]

Aniruddha wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 23:46 +0200, Patrick Lamaizière wrote:
>   
>> Le Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:42:43 +0200,
>> Aniruddha <mailing_list at orange.nl> a écrit :
>>
>>     
>>> Because of the problems with my onboard Intel HDA audio chip I plan to
>>> buy a soundcard that is supported by FreeBSD.
>>>       
>> There is a new hda driver in current, may be you can try it on
>> RELENG_7?
>>
>> See 
>> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-New-snd_hda-driver-came-in.-p19499206.html
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks I'll check it out.v In the meantime I'm real curious about
> FreeBSD user experience with X-fi :)
>
>
>   
Hi,

I don't think the X-fi cards are supported in FreeBSD but I do know that 
in Linux they aren't.

Personally, I have a Creative Audigy 4 and it works great. The 
snd_emu10kx driver provides support for Creative SoundBlaster Live! and 
Audigy sound cards.

Best regards.