Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:43:43 -0500 From: George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov> To: Jay Sachs <jsachs@iclick.com> Cc: Scott Michel <scottm@CS.UCLA.EDU>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov Subject: Re: Yamaha DS-XG Message-ID: <199912202143.QAA01050@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:21:38 EST." <385D84A2.C1A9CB56@iclick.com>
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If it's not too much of a hassle, I vote for the newpcm driver. It is maddening to know which drivers work for which sound cardss anymore, especially if you don't follow the list threads that closely. I have an old ESS 1868 sound card that works like crap in 3.3. It used to work in 2.2.x. I went out and bought a Yamaha DS-XG only to learn that although it works great in NT there is no specs for a FBSD driver. I realize that there is so much proprietary info for sound cards that writing FBSD drivers is non-trivial. It is frustrating for outsiders like myself to stay on top of OSS soundcard development. Just my 2 cents worth. Thanks, George Uhl > Scott Michel wrote: > > > Well, after taking a look at what's involved with getting the DS-XG > > family of chips up and running, and aiming to shoot for a little > > driver development glory, I think I'll take a whack at getting the > > DS-XG sound chip up and running if no one else is willing. > > > > Having been out of the loop on multimedia for a while, what's the > > current state of affairs on the sound drivers? It still looks like > > there's the (perenially) newpcm stuff and the old (opensound-ish) > > drivers. > > > > Which set of drivers would/should I be aiming for? > > Doesn't much matter -- I'd jump at either. Are you saying you have > sufficient specs to write the driver? Last I checked, there's not enough > available even to get the SBPro emulation to generate sound. (I was able > to enable the chip as an SB, but nothing was documented regarding > linking up the SB emulation to the actual audio output). > > jay > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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