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What's this? Sound coming from my Audigy?!?!
Nov 22, 2002 09:35 UTC, by Daniel, Senior Journalist.From the gimme gimme gimme sound department...
It had been discussed some time ago at the BeDriverTalk mailing list. In it i practically begged a coder named Greg Crain to send me mail as soon as he had as much as a peep from his soundcard. He said he would, so i waited. The wait seemed to go on for ages, afterall, for someone who can't live without music (I made my boss give me a workstation with on-board audio), having no sound in BeOS was a torture. Then two weeks ago it came...
During my lunch hour, a mail arrived from Greg, with the subject line "Audigy alpha driver". I threw myself at the keyboard and mouse to read the instructions and install it. I HAD SOUND!! Greg was now my personal hero (after some other awesome coders like for example Thomas Kurschel for both his IDE Replacement Driver and his Radeon Driver). It was only left channel as he told me it would be, but I H-A-D S-O-U-N-D!!!!
A few days later i got another mail and oh joy, stereo sound in all it's glory! And it sounded better than when i had my Live card, at least to my ears.
So for two weeks i provided feedback and basically enjoyed listening to my albums in mp3. Life was (almost) good again. And i waited for his OK so i could post it here for everyone who has been sound-deprived to go and download it. Thank you Greg for all your work, and to everyone who helped in anyway to bring this driver to BeOS.
What? What's that you say? "Where's the freaking link to the driver you #@#4@$#%$!!!"... No, i didn't forget, click right HERE and download it. And remember, coders love feedback.
Update 1: Along with the talkback section over at BeBits, you can discuss the driver and provide feeback here. Update 2 coming along shortly...
Update 2: Greg asked me to make a small update to the article, so without further ado, here are his words: "Jerome Duval did a huge amount of work on the SBLive driver code that I updated and modified for the Audigy. It might be nice to mention his name and that I thank him. He got some of his code from Marcus Overhagen's driver, so the community really does feed itself !"
During my lunch hour, a mail arrived from Greg, with the subject line "Audigy alpha driver". I threw myself at the keyboard and mouse to read the instructions and install it. I HAD SOUND!! Greg was now my personal hero (after some other awesome coders like for example Thomas Kurschel for both his IDE Replacement Driver and his Radeon Driver). It was only left channel as he told me it would be, but I H-A-D S-O-U-N-D!!!!
A few days later i got another mail and oh joy, stereo sound in all it's glory! And it sounded better than when i had my Live card, at least to my ears.
So for two weeks i provided feedback and basically enjoyed listening to my albums in mp3. Life was (almost) good again. And i waited for his OK so i could post it here for everyone who has been sound-deprived to go and download it. Thank you Greg for all your work, and to everyone who helped in anyway to bring this driver to BeOS.
What? What's that you say? "Where's the freaking link to the driver you #@#4@$#%$!!!"... No, i didn't forget, click right HERE and download it. And remember, coders love feedback.
Update 1: Along with the talkback section over at BeBits, you can discuss the driver and provide feeback here. Update 2 coming along shortly...
Update 2: Greg asked me to make a small update to the article, so without further ado, here are his words: "Jerome Duval did a huge amount of work on the SBLive driver code that I updated and modified for the Audigy. It might be nice to mention his name and that I thank him. He got some of his code from Marcus Overhagen's driver, so the community really does feed itself !"
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