From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 19:51:09 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14CC16A417 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:51:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A41C13C461 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:51:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 13538 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2007 19:51:02 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Nov 2007 19:51:02 -0000 Message-ID: <4749D1BC.9000207@chuckr.org> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:49:16 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Nekus References: <47475DF3.8030407@chuckr.org> <47477B4F.6000008@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound documentation for the snd_hda (Nvidia) X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:51:09 -0000 Rick Nekus wrote: > Hi, > I had an Asus P5B-Deluxe (Intel Quad-core,... AD1988b onboard audio) > -it has the same audio chipset as yours > yes, they are different boards, but (at that time) I had to use the OSS > drivers from: > http://www.4front-tech.com/freebsd.html (read the install howto) > and it worked great for me. > (but all I wanted was good quality stereo ;) > -of course, this depends on "exactly" what you want out of it ? and if > you're already aware of this,... ah well. First, top-posting is discourteous, I think. Probably shouldn't do it. Secondly, I run FreeBSD-current ... and those OSS drivers say they're for FreeBSD-6. Will they work? Well, regardless, I was looking at the code in hdac.c (part of the snd_hda driver) and comments refer to t he fact that the driver is not in it's final form, that it's virtually guaranteed to change to a more structured buss system. Is the code for the intended final implementation entered yet into cvs? Not in final form, I know, that's obvious, it's not yet that far along, but if anything at all has been done, I would very much like to see what is meant by the comments I found. I might like to contribute, if I can wrap my noggin around it Or should I have asked on the FreeBSD-current list?. > > hope this helps. > > Rick. > > > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:15:59 -0500 > > From: chuckr@chuckr.org > > To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org > > CC: > > Subject: Re: sound documentation for the snd_hda (Nvidia) > > > > Chuck Robey wrote: > > > I have a Asus motherboard, a Striker Extreme, which has a Nvidia > > > chipset, and the Analog Devices 1988b IC. What I'm getting at is, I'm > > > not getting all that I could be getting out of it, and I want to know > > > more about the hardware and software that I'm using. I was > wondering if > > > the folks who originally write the snd_hda driver, that's only for the > > > Nvidia & Analog Devices hardware? What documentation did they work > with > > > to write that driver? > > > > > > Nvidia sells *something* (and I know precious little about that > > > *something*) that's supposed to improve the sound system. I don't want > > > to pay Asus for it until I know whether or not it's needed for the > > > FreeBSD driver, or if having it could help me in any way > whatsoever. If > > > it would help, Id buy it, but until I know that, I really hate feeling > > > like a prize chump, paying them for Windows software that I'd never > make > > > use of (I never run any M$ software). > > > > > > More than just that, I want & need whatever docs were used to form the > > > snd_hda driver. I'd really, really appreciate any info on that you > have. > > > > > > > Oh, I just finally realized this isn't a Nvidia thing, it's Intel, My > > mothergboard is Nvidia 680 based, so I'd assumed, but you know the stopy > > about assume, right? Well, I fihnally ran down a couple of big pdfs > > from Intel on this, and I have my reading time all set for myself. > > > > Now, all I need is to find the same stuff out about ... oh, not again, > > this time zi google a bit longer first. > > > > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Send a smile, make someone laugh, have some fun! Start now! >