From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Mar 14 22:40: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (quack.kfu.com [170.1.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E30637B8A8 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from icarus.kfu.com (icarus.kfu.com [170.1.70.17]) by quack.kfu.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA36988 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from quack.kfu.com by icarus.kfu.com with ESMTP (8.9.3//ident-1.0) id WAA01679; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:39:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38CF3022.C4D51D23@quack.kfu.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:39:30 -0800 From: Nick Sayer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Understanding AC97 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have been seeing more and more reference to AC97. It sounds to me like some sort of standardization for soundcard innards, but I can't find any information about the scope of the standard. Particularly, my K7M motherboard has a VIA 82C686 AC97 codec on it. 'device pcm' doesn't pick it up, so there's clearly more to it. What is AC97 and what does it want with us? :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message