Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:42:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 7500 sound configuration Message-ID: <200007161842.MAA02020@zen.alb.khoral.com> In-Reply-To: <20000716112730.A57098@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jul 16, 2000 11:27:30 AM
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Thanks for your response. Greg Lehey wrote >> On Thursday, 13 July 2000 at 11:05:48 -0600, Steve Jorgensen wrote: >> > >> > I'm trying to get sound working on my Dell Inspiron 7500 >> > notebook under FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE as of July 11. It has the ESS >> > Technology Maestro 2E Audio controlloer in it. After a search >> > of the archives, it looks like it isn't supported under >> > 4.0, however, the latest artical I found talking about it >> > was Feb 2000. So, I'm hoping that progress has been made since >> > then. :) Anyway, I've defined >> > >> > device pcm0 >> > device sbc0 >> > >> > in my Kernel config, and I've attached the output of a >> > dmesg. Is it possible to get audio working? If so >> > how? Thanks for any help. >> >> Unfortunately, we currently don't have support for this chip. If you >> want to lend your laptop to a developer for a few weeks, you might get >> it :-) Loaning out the laptop wouldn't be an option for me, but I could make it available remotely. However, I also received a response from Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> saying he saw a message saying <taku@cent.saitama-u.ac.jp> recently started working on a driver for the ESS Maestro series, and there would be a "Testers wanted!" message on multimedia in the near future. Taku's message was sent on Jun 28. >> >> > ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr >> > ata1-slave: identify failed >> > ad0: 28615MB <IBM-DJSA-230> [58140/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 >> > acd0: DVD-ROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2402> at ata1-master using PIO4 >> >> Hmm, they've brought out a new top-end disk. How old is this machine? >> Do you hear any clicking noises from the disk? A number of us have >> reported this problem on the "old" 25 GB disks. Yes, a 30GB disk according to their web page. I got this machine last Wednesday. I haven't heard any clicking though, they must have fixed it in the new disk. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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