From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Feb 10 10:58:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259A74552 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:58:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA39201; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:57:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200002101857.TAA39201@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Super South sound In-Reply-To: <200002101855.TAA56653@luxren2.boostworks.com> from Remy Nonnenmacher at "Feb 10, 2000 07:55:08 pm" To: remy@boostworks.com Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:57:41 +0100 (CET) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: > On 10 Feb, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: > >> ..... > >> Looking for details, I noticed that there is a Linux patch to have this > >> part of the VIA82C686 working. Someone to spent some time at it ? > > > > I've sent the relevant data to someone (forgot who) that would at least > > try to get the '97 sound going under newpcm.... > > BTW, I have some difficulties to understand the exact role of the AC97 > chip when used in conjunction with the SB emulation inside the VIA. The > Lin. patch seems only read the configuration from a specific area (via > PCI id) and just initialize the standard SB driver with address/dma/irq. Uhm, I dont think we should use the SB emu at all, that only gives us 8bit sound etc. When in '97 mode it can do 16bit etc... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message