Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:14:46 -0700 (MST) From: "Scott D. Yelich" <scott@scottyelich.com> To: Jekyll <jekyll@netfallout.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: RE: /dev/dsp: Device busy. (ESS Maestro-2E = 4p/0r) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010291240100.21211-100000@hackme.spy.org> In-Reply-To: <NLEIJAIGJLJLJPHEKDPGIEJMCCAA.jekyll@netfallout.com>
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Jekyll wrote: > Is ESD running? Is this while you're running gnome? I'm running KDE, not gnome -- but that shouldn't matter. I am also not running ESD. I have downloaded ESD and looked at it, though. It doesn't seem to really be relevant at this point: > For me, ESD runs and everything that wants to play something goes through > ESD (ie: xmms outputs to ESD, not /dev/dsp). ESD is required with Gnome, so > chances are if you're running Gnome, you're running ESD (otherwise you'd > have a grossly long wait time for anything that is Gnome and uses sound to > launch :). It seems to me, then that ESD simply references underlying devices to try to allow, perhaps, for mixing/multi-plexing... My issue appears to be that the underlying device doesn't work. Rather, when I upgraded to 4.1.1 from 4.1 because the maestro add-in for 4.1 didn't seem to work, I did get play support. I *assumed* (I know, I do apologize) that I'd also get support for recording! It didn't occur to me that I was only get 1/2 support. Of course, I'd surely rather have play support only than record support only :-> I found about 4 drivers for ESS Maestro-2E (which, btw, is the chip I unfortunately have -- since I'm not sure I mentioned it in my original message). Unfortunately, two of them appear to be for linux. OSS does seem to have support for the ESS Maestro-2E -- at least when I install their demo, it recognizes the Maestro. They also have a program that can record -- but, alas, accessing /dev/dsp when OSS is installed gives "Input/Output Error" ... their tech support doesn't seem to grasp the significance of this and insist that I use their recording program. > -Matt Bertrand > PS - Scott.. don't know if it is me or not, but my mailserver wasn't > able to get a MX record for your domain. DNS may have been having problems. I was unable to get any resolution for cent.saitama-u.ac.jp at all last night. Although I paid internic over $300 to renew my domain for a decade, it does appear that it will come up for renewal payment this month, but it should still be working now. Those thieves! :-> In the meantime, can you get an MX now -- without changing anything, I was able to get an MX record from several offsite hosts. I did get an answer back from Taku that recording isn't supported with his driver. Of course, this seems to only be verification of what is already known: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Oct 2 2000 02:10:21 Installed devices: pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> at I/O port 0x1400 irq 5 (4p/0r channels duplex) 0r = 0 channels for recording. I briefly spoke with someone who said he did much of the work on the new-pcm stuff. He says that there are stub drivers somewhere. Although I'm not a device driver coder -- I will try to hack at something. I lost the guy's email address and he's not on the chat system where we chatted. I hope to find that stub driver (myself) soon. I found esm2.txt and esswindump.zip ... both might be useful to someone who is more able to write drivers: http://home.t-online.de/home/Braun_Homburg/esm2.txt http://home.t-online.de/home/Braun_Homburg/esswindump.zip http://home.t-online.de/home/Braun_Homburg/essm2e-alsa.tar.gz See also: http://www.zabbo.net/maestro/maestro-20000128.tar.gz http://people.redhat.com/zab/maestro/ zab@zabbo.net This guy says he has contacts at ESS and could get a driver writer in contact with them. Etc. However, he has a driver for linux and I would think it could be converted right over for freebsd. His linux driver also has great documentation in the code. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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