Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:51:21 +0100 (MET) From: Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de> To: roger@cs.strath.ac.uk (Roger Hardiman) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-Soundcards will vanish... Message-ID: <9811121551.AA13122@postamt1.charite.de> In-Reply-To: <364AB844.2781@cs.strath.ac.uk> from Roger Hardiman at "Nov 12, 98 10:28:20 am"
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> The lack of PCI soundcard support is down to three things. > a) we need a developer with some spare time > b) that developer needs a PCI sound card > c) and they need the data sheets for the chipset. > > Often it is hard to get all three requirements met at the same time. What about the linux world ? If someone of them would write a driver I'd try to port it (ok, if I have such a card). Or is the linux world also without PCI-sound support ? (Hey, this is an offer, I'm offering porting from linux to FreeBSD stuff :-)) > Sometimes companies are reluctant to give out the chipset datasheets. > > But there is hope. > NetBSD does have a driver for a PCI sound card (I forget which now) > OSS does support some PCI soundcards. (I think the Sound Blaster 128) > > FreeBSD is only lacking due to resource problems. How many people are working on such stuff ? > I agree on the need for this development. Thank God, I'm not alone...:-) > Now Sound Blaster have released the SB Live card, I can see the > ISA AWE64's becoming harder to source. > However, there will always be someone making the 'cheap and low quality' > $20 ISA > sound cards for a few years. Are you sure ? We have some discounter here which only sells 1 or 2 ISA-cards but 5 PCI-cards. I think in half a year they won't have any ISA-cards anymore. Bye, Udo -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@i.am, www: http://i.am/uwp !!!! LOW-TECH Page: http://hello.to/low-tech !!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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