Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:20:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jesse Riddle" <jxriddle@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/40155: No sound on Presario 700 laptop's ac97 codec. (VIA82C686) Message-ID: <200304111320.h3BDKBN6004046@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/40155; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jesse Riddle" <jxriddle@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, <jxriddle@hotmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: kern/40155: No sound on Presario 700 laptop's ac97 codec. (VIA82C686) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:13:27 -0400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C30002.3B03B860 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Jesse again. I got sound working the next day (Jul 4, 2002) by very = cheaply hacking in the Linux patch code into the AC97 codec. Many very = gracious people have sent me their own versions of the hack, for which I = am thankful. However, I do believe that a better solution need be = presented, as opposed to simply a cheap hack. I like the way the = FreeBSD sound subsystem is arranged. I'm generally a neophyte at = kernel-level programming, but I noticed that hardware-dependent code and = hardware-independent code seemed to be seperate. You guys do very nice = work. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C30002.3B03B860 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi, Jesse again. I got sound = working the next=20 day (Jul 4, 2002) by very cheaply hacking in the Linux patch code into = the AC97=20 codec. Many very gracious people have sent me their own versions = of the=20 hack, for which I am thankful. However, I do believe that a better = solution need be presented, as opposed to simply a cheap hack. I = like the=20 way the FreeBSD sound subsystem is arranged. I'm generally a = neophyte at=20 kernel-level programming, but I noticed that hardware-dependent code and = hardware-independent code seemed to be seperate. You guys do = very=20 nice work.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C30002.3B03B860--
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