From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Feb 22 16: 8:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6514737B761; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:08:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (lxpxbj.lx.ehu.es [158.227.99.135]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA22491; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 01:00:59 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <38B3233A.F119D914@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 01:00:58 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pa=EDs?= Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y =?iso-8859-1?Q?Electr=F3nica?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darryl Okahata Cc: Tamer Ziady , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 7k Sound References: <200002221739.JAA23324@mina.sr.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Darryl Okahata wrote: > > Tamer Ziady wrote: > > > I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 and having the following problem: > > > > what should I have in the kernel for sound support? > > The Inspiron 7000/7500 uses the ESS Maestro 2E sound chip, which is > not supported by FreeBSD (even in -current). The soundcard developers > would like to support it, but they apparently have no access to a system > with the Maestro 2E chip, and so they can't write a driver for it. > I have a laptop (Dell I3.7k) which also uses the ESS Maestro 2E, and I could try to write a driver for that chip if I could get the docs... I want to learn how to write a device driver for FreeBSD (I wrote drivers for AIX some years ago, so I am not a newbie! ;-) ). I am crossposting to -multimedia for this reason. Is there any chance to get the ESS Maestro 2E docs? I read somewhere that the newpcm developers have the docs, but perhaps a NDA has been signed... -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.org Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message