From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jan 22 8:32:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from astralblue.com (adsl-209-76-108-39.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [209.76.108.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8765157A5 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 08:32:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@astralblue.com) Received: from localhost (ab@localhost) by astralblue.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA24984; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 08:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@astralblue.com) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 08:32:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene M. Kim" To: Ken Krebs Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aureal Drivers for Linux - Need FreeBSD ones now! :) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just downloaded the driver and took a first glance on this. The impression was: negative. They supplied some opaque .o files in ELF format, and doing nm on them reveals that they require some external symbols whose name tends to be Linux-centric (linux_acquire_device_spinlock, for an example). Aureal's webpage says Aureal is preparing a 100%-pure source distribution as well as the programming information docs. I think FreeBSD driver is unlikely to come out until that point. Regards, Eugene On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Ken Krebs wrote: | Aureal finally made Linux drivers for the Aureal based cards. I have a | Diamond MX300 in my machine and I love it... I just wished it worked under | FreeBSD. :( OSS doesn't work under 4.0-current right now and anyhow OSS | is a piece of crap (I bought that and regret buying it :( | | Anyone have any working drivers for the Aureal Vortex2 based cards for | FreeBSD 4.0-current yet? | | | You can download the drivers from here: | | http://linux.aureal.com/ -- Eugene M. Kim "Is your music unpopular? Make it popular; make music which people like, or make people who like your music." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message