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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:59:20 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sony F430 sound ? (everything else working) (Re: (long) multiple queries about 4.0 on Sony 505HS) 
Message-ID:  <200003292259.OAA01327@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:25:25 EST." <20000329172525.C24259@pir.net> 

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> I've been installing FreeBSD on some work Sony F430s at the request of my
> boss (I get to try this stuff out and get paid for it ;)
> 
> Windows reports the sound device as a Yamaha DS-XG and it's on irq 9 with
> the vga device and several other things.

You are SOL for now.  Yamaha don't make documentation for this device
available.

> The only thing that puzzles me is that if I use 16 bit it uses more
> acceleration;
> (**) SVGA: Using 16 bpp, Depth 16, Color weight: 565
> [...]
> (--) SVGA: NM2200: Using hardware cursor
> (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture)
> (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles
> (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy
> [etc]
> 
> Does XAA need some spare memory or is something odd going on ?

XAA is the XFree86 Acceleration Architecture.  The chip probably doesn't 
support these operations in 24-bit mode.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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