From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 09:30:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DB537B401 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 09:30:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EC843FA3 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 09:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roger@telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk) Received: from VAIO ([62.255.16.85]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP id <20030516163023.GVDE11246.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@VAIO>; Fri, 16 May 2003 17:30:23 +0100 Message-ID: <002701c31bc8$73be3400$8064a8c0@VAIO> From: "Roger Hardiman" To: "Alexander Langer" References: <20030516135815.GH1440@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:30:17 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux port of the Brooktree Soundchip drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 16:30:26 -0000 Hi there > I've ported the Linux msp3400.c driver to FreeBSD. Gerd Knorr, the > author of the Linux driver agreed to release this driver under a BSD > Licence, so it should be possible to commit it to the tree. Great. > The Linux driver, however, always worked as expected, and instead of > trying to fix the code we currently have, which is a bit hackish already > now, I decided to just port the Linux driver. I agree, that is a good idea. > This code does all detection routines you can find in the specs of the > MSP34xx chips, so it should work out of the box. Indeed I can have stereo > sound on all my German channels here, and it also correctly detects > bilingual or mono modes while keeping the same channel (that's what the > kernel thread is for). Nice. > If you have had problems with your bktr sound in the past, or if you > just want to help me debug any problems with my port, please try the > following patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~alex/bktr.patch > > I'm looking forward to any kind of reports, success or bug reports. > Once I have a well working version, I hope Roger is going to merge > in this code. Yep. I only have -current on my work laptop, so I cannot actually test it on -current. Hopefully all this works on 4.x too which is what my desktops run. Roger