Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:41:26 -0000 From: "Cameron Grant" <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk> To: "Nick Sayer" <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>, <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Understanding AC97 Message-ID: <003101bf8eae$123bdcf0$0304020a@NENYA> References: <38CF3022.C4D51D23@quack.kfu.com>
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> I have been seeing more and more reference to AC97. It sounds to me like
> some sort of standardization
> for soundcard innards, but I can't find any information about the scope
> of the standard.
ac97 defines an interface to a codec which sits between an isa/pci audio
controller and the analogue world. an ac97 codec handles mixing of various
digital and analogue audio sources, generating a final output signal.
> Particularly,
> my K7M motherboard has a VIA 82C686 AC97 codec on it. 'device pcm'
> doesn't pick it up, so there's clearly
> more to it.
i will have an 82c686 driver shortly.
- cg
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