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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:58:26 +0200
From:      Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>
To:        "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sound support broken in FreeBSD 4.0-S?
Message-ID:  <acfb9e42e50f413f00a5b44067dff452@cequrux.com>
References:  <14491b0f342d5ff7d4d265f9d05b27ba@cequrux.com> <20000614112341.H2097@stat.Duke.EDU> <742527ef53721df84c593f6698564803@cequrux.com> <20000614115420.J2097@stat.Duke.EDU> <be50b8d4c4485b79dd63da7e5b02bb80@cequrux.com> <20000614124142.P2097@stat.Duke.EDU>

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Sean O'Connell wrote:
> 
> Graham Wheeler stated:
> > Can't glean too much from WIndoze. If I go to the system properties, I
> > see:
> >
> > General: VIA PCI Audio Controller (WDM) v033
> > Resources: IRQ 9, I/O Ranges 1000-10FF, 1434-1437, 1430-1433
> >
> > which looks very different to an SB16, I must admit.
> 
> This means it will behave like one if the backend PCI stuff is
> attached and configured (a la the problem I was having with
> the Yamaha).  This is well into the realm of device driver needing
> to be written (unless this is an OEM'd version of a supported pci
> sound card).  You might want to query on freebsd-multimedia, but
> I wouldn't hold my breath.
> 
> Can you get any noise out of it if
> 
> point things at the dsp0 interface or dspW0 interface rather
> than /dev/audio?  Not sure if that'll do anything...

Nope.

I've done a bit of searching. It looks like it is a VIA VT82C686 chip.
There are drivers for Linux. 

Given the three fairly major problems I am having with this laptop:

* no sound

* flaky touchpad

* XFree86 4.0 crashing if I switch to a console and then back

I may just have to switch over to Linux. A sad day indeed.

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