i just cant find out how can my sblive work on all 100percent on fBSD machine. I have kernel recompiled and sblive works, but allmost all feauters are disabled, i dont get multichannel, and the sound is like from 10$ sound system. please help me finding free driver or help to configure one on my freebsd 4.5 stable. thx a lot.

Try this section of the FreeBSD Handbook .

If this doesn't help, post again.

device pcm

this option is enabled, like have to be But live still work not on all100% if it @least worked on 50% were good Cant understand how to enable 2nd output and enable multichannel on live under FreeBSD, now already 4.6-stable. but anyway thanks. Rereading of handbook helps anyway. Trying to add / configure some new devices and progrms, but maybe i do something wrong because still nothing change.

The pcm driver is a pretty generic driver so chances are you are not going to find a widely available driver that will enable the front and back speakers. Yeah, I know, it bites.

I have a similar problem. I'm using a SoundBlaster Live! and I didn't found yet the mixer which can make use of SBLive's features... Not even bass/treble... There is an alternate driver for SBLive! & FreeBSD available somewhere?

I know there is a company out there that writes custom drivers for various Unices.

A Google Search should get them, or a post to comp.unix.* might as well

http://www.opensound.com/
the problem is , it is not free