Hello all...I was pointed here by a fellow member/friend, and I have some silly questions...

I just bought a chaintech av-710, and I really love it....but my desktop os of choice is FreeBSD (http://freebsd.org) and I cannot get any of the default sound drivers in FreeBSD 5.3-Stable (latest sources as of one month ago)

So I booted up knoppix quick, and after much fiddling around, I got the card working, using the optical output (to my logitech Z680's), and the thing sounds damn good....

So I was wondering if anybody here knows any tips on getting this thing working with freebsd....
anywys heres some quick questions....and sorry if they are dumb, I am googling right as I type this, but I wanted the opinion of the smart people on these boards

1) Can I use the alsa sound output plugin with xmms on freebsd?
2) how do i know what DAC I am using on the card (it has two??...or im a bit confused)
3)Any good suggestions of reading about this card...I have read threads on this board saying that the card has great features and potential...but I am kind of a sound n00b....

Anyways, I hope these questions aren't too stupid, its kind of late haha so they might sound pretty dumb.
thanks in advance for any help or opinions!

bump for you mate... been wondering the EMU1212M/linux question as well.

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I may be alittle out of date on this but last year when i was fiddling around with freeBSD i checked for info about my terratec dmx 6fire(based on a similar chipset to the av-710) and there was next to no support for it. I talked to someone who had done some sound driver developement for freeBSD and he confirmed my findings. Sorry this probably isn't of much help but FreeBSD doesn't have much focus on sound.

No support as far as I know. I hate it.

I believe there are OSS drivers you can purchase that will give you more support for sound cards. While it is closed source and solely a kernel module, it is better than nothing I suppose. I'm thinking you might be able to get a USB sound device to work. Probably could just make a soft-link that has /dev/snd point to the USB device. Never actually tried it though, since I just settled to use Windows instead for sound.

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http://www.opensound.com/freebsd.html

Support is there, and it looks like they are supporting the chipset that the AV-710 uses.
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respect!

I am rebooting into freebsd in a minute and I will see if OSS will work

it works!! w00t

I got xmms / libosssurround working with it, and now I just have to figure out how to get xine to output to the device properly....word and massive props to malus for pointing me out to this link...and respect to twodeko for pointing me to these forums

thankee mate... keep it going buddy

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Neither, by using the optical out the DAC in your speaker's amp will be used.

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I'm flattered.

I'm assuming you just tell Xine to use OSS as the sound system? I'm not too familiar with it though. Might be a compile time option.

Now, if this would work with my EMU 404, I'd be in heaven. I'm getting ready to set up a NetBSD box and I've noticed that the OSS drivers support that as well. It's looking really good.