From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 18:45:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2D516A420 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:45:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org) Received: from smartmx-07.inode.at (smartmx-07.inode.at [213.229.60.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056F243D48 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:45:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org) Received: from [81.223.62.146] (port=59191 helo=masternotebo.mhr.lan) by smartmx-07.inode.at with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1F7Gmr-0006ry-12 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:45:01 +0100 From: FreeBSD Prospect To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:42:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <200602062154.07577.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> In-Reply-To: <200602062154.07577.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602091942.05654.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> Subject: Re: nforce2 digital audio output support? (or spdif support at all?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:45:02 -0000 Am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 21:54 schrieb FreeBSD Prospect: > I was searching for more info about support for DOLBY DIGITAL pass-through > to a digital audio output, but nothing recent came up. > This matter seems to be a serious shortage in FreeBSD, because the only > useable info which came up on www.google.com/bsd was concerning NetBSD > (http://bsd-crew.de/index.php/5.1-Surround-Sound_mit_NetBSD, which is in > German language). There something of an audio-layer is mentioned. > Is it really possible, that NetBSD is ahead of FreeBSD in that particular > matter? > I have a workstation with Asus A7N8X-deluxe motherboard, which features the > nforce2 chipset, and has an electrial digital audio output. > On my first few tests with FreeBSD 6.0 (-RELEASE), after loading the > snd_ich driver, I got analog sound working, but the digital output was not > recognized and did not show up in sysctl. > Any idea, if spdif support is already in -CURRENT, and if not, if somebody > is working on that issue? Now that's strange, I really thought, I am not the only one interested in being able to use a DOLBY DIGITAL signal output in FreeBSD. Does really nobody here have a clue? -- Sincerely, Michael A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux