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Sound in FreeBSD 6.x

• Posted by Oliver Herold on March 21st, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

Since FreeBSD 6.2 there are some new sound drivers in FreeBSD, but one important driver is missing: emu10kx (Audigy2-4 non-pro). Don’t use the version from ports anymore, it’s really dated. But don’t worry you can get the missing driver in no time. Just follow the instructions there in the README file, it’s rather easy. But maybe this isn’t enough? If you’re the owner of a Creative Labs X-FI card or maybe of a Asus Xonar (Chipset: CMI8788) then there is just one possiblity to get some ‘noise’, you have to install 4fronts OSS drivers from ports. It’s rather easy too, after installation just enter soundon as root et voila. But beware 4fronts OSS driver isn’t 100% compatible, there are some minor quirks with some games/applications and there were some incompatibilities with nVidia binary drivers in the past. But usually they are fine.