snd_emu10k1 driver

[Bill Blue]

Hi,

Is this driver known to be 100% working?  I'm running stable 6.2 p6 right now and have this device driver installed (device sound and device snd_emu10k1 compiled into the kernel) for use with a Creative Live! card.  Audio outputs work correctly, and the various players will produce audio as expected via the PCM control.  Line input works as well.  'mixer' works as does KDE's kmix (they track each other).  I've also installed the driver via kldload at boot, but it makes no difference.

I'm unable to successfully record audio from the line input of this Creative Live! card.  Either using the generic /dev/dsp as the recording source, or individual devices /dev/dsp0.0 and up, dspW0.0 and up, or dspr0.4/5.  There's just no audio there.

For the recording software I've used Krec, ffmpeg, darkice and streamTranscoder (the latter two feeding an icecast server).  'mixer' has its recording device (=rec) set to line in, and I'm feeding audio to line in (analog) and spdif in (digital).  There's no problem monitoring the 'line in' buss on the outputs, but there's no audio on the record output device.

dmesg shows the driver being installed, and cat /dev/sndstat shows it is active on pcm0.  If I cat /dev/sndstat with a higher verbosity (set with sysctrl) it shows that the record devices should be dsp0.4 and dsp0.5, line and mic in respectively.  The man page for snd_emu10k1 says the recording devices should be dspr0.4 and dspr0.5 but only if they're driving a codec directly -- I'm not sure what that means exactly.

There's no sound daemons like esound or artsd running during these tests.  The ports being tested as an input device seem to open correctly and show up as read devices in fstat.

I've also tried the snd_emu10kx driver to no avail.

Has anyone had experience using the Live! sound card and these drivers?  And if so, is recording correctly supported?

I have other sound cards available, but none of them seem to have driver support in FreeBSD.  One is a Delta (Midiman) 410 with an ICE1712 chip, and the other is a Turtle Beach TB400 (not a Santa Cruz) with Vortex AU8830A2 chip.  Both cards have analog and digital ins and outs.

Anyone with insight on any of this?

--Bill