From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Apr 9 2:55:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D04541522E for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 02:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id JAA00659; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:34:51 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199904090734.JAA00659@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: YMF719 - configuration hell! To: steve@snuggly.demon.co.uk (Steve Roome) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:34:50 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Steve Roome" at Apr 8, 99 07:11:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1913 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > So, the question now is, why does it support ALT_PCM but not PCM, and > what exactly does that mean to me ? no idea... > > > no matter what one does to the card in FreeBSD it only ever gets out > > > about 50% the volume that the Windows driver manages on plain audio. > > > > kind of known problem -- the yamaha has some extra registers for > > overall volume setting which are not handled by the driver. In fact there > > is some code which deals with such registers on the YMF711/715 (i think > > -- i am using them on the libretto) but just sets them to max volume. > > Aha, but it doesn't seem to actually set it to max, something more like > 50% I think.. I'm not too sure about this though. probably it only works for the 711 and the 719 has volume registers elsewhere. > > > 2) How can I get the Voxware driver to work for this chipset, I think > > > it's probably possible, but using pnp at the same time makes it somewhat > > > harder to get anywhere. > > > > you mean the commercial one ? > > The old one that used to be the default in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/sound, > or perhaps a newer version, this appears to be VoxWare 2.9 on 3.0-Release. that one is so old and unmaintained, it does not know of any new card. > > > 3) Has anyone got a similar card to use soundblaster mode at all ? > > > > some might, but MSS mode is the one which works best. > > Tried that with the old driver, but I always end up getting a lot of > things like this : > > /kernel: How strange... mss_intr with no reason! that's a message of the _new_ driver (pcm). > I've emailed the guy who maintains the documentation at yamaha to see if I > can get one. Could be handy, although I'd not rate my chances of getting > it to work even with the datasheet very highly either though =) not really, usually you need a very little bit of info (register location and meaning...) to make things work. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message