From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 01:17:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF35516A41B for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:17:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C85CC13C459 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:17:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 9046 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2007 01:17:54 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 24 Nov 2007 01:17:54 -0000 Message-ID: <47477B4F.6000008@chuckr.org> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:15:59 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org References: <47475DF3.8030407@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <47475DF3.8030407@chuckr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: sound documentation for the snd_hda (Nvidia) X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:17:54 -0000 Chuck Robey wrote: > I have a Asus motherboard, a Striker Extreme, which has a Nvidia > chipset, and the Analog Devices 1988b IC. What I'm getting at is, I'm > not getting all that I could be getting out of it, and I want to know > more about the hardware and software that I'm using. I was wondering if > the folks who originally write the snd_hda driver, that's only for the > Nvidia & Analog Devices hardware? What documentation did they work with > to write that driver? > > Nvidia sells *something* (and I know precious little about that > *something*) that's supposed to improve the sound system. I don't want > to pay Asus for it until I know whether or not it's needed for the > FreeBSD driver, or if having it could help me in any way whatsoever. If > it would help, Id buy it, but until I know that, I really hate feeling > like a prize chump, paying them for Windows software that I'd never make > use of (I never run any M$ software). > > More than just that, I want & need whatever docs were used to form the > snd_hda driver. I'd really, really appreciate any info on that you have. > Oh, I just finally realized this isn't a Nvidia thing, it's Intel, My mothergboard is Nvidia 680 based, so I'd assumed, but you know the stopy about assume, right? Well, I fihnally ran down a couple of big pdfs from Intel on this, and I have my reading time all set for myself. Now, all I need is to find the same stuff out about ... oh, not again, this time zi google a bit longer first. > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"