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Date:      Sun, 8 Aug 1999 18:52:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: it's time...
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908081847360.18566-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000901bee13c$b1831dc0$0304020a@rings>

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> to let newpcm out of the cage so you can all get your grubby little hands on
> it.
> 
> http://www.vilnya.demon.co.uk/newpcm+dfrpnp-19990807.diff.gz
> 
> this is a patch against a recent -current.  if you have a pci or isapnp
> soundcard, you should have pnp0 and pcm0 in your kernel config as
> appropriate.  isapnp cards should not need any pnp lines in kernel.conf.
> 
> the list of supported cards is as for luigi's driver, with the addition of a
> couple more mss-clones, and trident 4dwave.  there is a part done aureal
> vortex driver which is as yet nonfunctional.  mmap() is supported but not
> well tested.  format conversions are supported.  the code seems to be
> stable.
> 
> please test it and email me success and failure reports.
> 
>     - cameron
> 

It works ok for me, but one nice feature of the sound system would be if
upon shutdown (I don't leave my machine on all the time right now) OS
somehow looked at a config file (call it /etc/soundvol.conf) for mixer
volumes, and set them to that as a default... Just an idea.

KEnneth Culver



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