From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 20:36:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D55916A419 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A09A13C469 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 485 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2007 20:36:09 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Nov 2007 20:36:09 -0000 Message-ID: <4749DC4E.30504@chuckr.org> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:34:22 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Howard Goldstein References: <47475DF3.8030407@chuckr.org> <47477B4F.6000008@chuckr.org> <47484E4F.8000404@queue.to> <4749D405.6050800@chuckr.org> <4749D8CF.6030003@queue.to> In-Reply-To: <4749D8CF.6030003@queue.to> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound documentation for the snd_hda (Nvidia) X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:36:36 -0000 Howard Goldstein wrote: > > Chuck Robey wrote: >> Do you know more? > > I'm afraid not. I haven't had good luck with the hda driver. After I > sent my reply I turned back to using the snd_hda driver and the old > instability I had under the 6.x release returned (symptoms: lockups > during simultaneous SATA and audio operations). Some digging through > google suggested there were possibly issues with the interrupt handling, > arising out of the multiplexing. Unfortunately I see it now on 7.0 as > well so I'll be falling back to it and monitoring your progress. > >> Where do the developers of the HDA code hang out, on this list? Is >> the snd_hda the current hda driver, and if so, where's the new code >> going to be? >> >> God, maybe I better let my questions lie quiet a bit. I get too many, >> and you'll never answer any of them. >> > > I'm not sure if snd_hda has changed since 6.X. If you don't find > answers here you may want to try over on one of the kernel mailing > lists. With no disrespect meant to the subscribers here (including > myself!) most of the traffic here typically regards multimedia utilities > and ports rather than kernel devices. Well, my problem is, I want my audio working, and i don't really care too much exactly where it takes me. I saw comments in the hda code saying that it was going to be rewritten, so that's my current target. I did try, momentarily, the oss4 drivers I found, but they don'[t compile under FreeBSD-current either, so the bus structure has undoubtedly changed. This means (to me) that I am woefully ignorant of what I need, to be able to contribute. At least, NOW I am, but it just means that I need to learn it. OK, then, I suppose my target is first the -current list, then the developers I see are still slowly contributing, when I checked cvs logs. Thanks for the pointers. I'm finding, there are a LOT of folks on this list who follow poor courtesy, top posting, not trimming context, and cross-posting. Doesn't anyone care? My mailbox is getting full from all the cross-posting. I'm not perfect myself on that, but at least, I do try. More'n some folks do.