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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:15:59 -0500
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
To:        FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sound documentation for the snd_hda (Nvidia)
Message-ID:  <47477B4F.6000008@chuckr.org>
In-Reply-To: <47475DF3.8030407@chuckr.org>
References:  <47475DF3.8030407@chuckr.org>

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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.
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