Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 07:09:01 +0100 From: Dean Lombardo <dlombardo@excite.com> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: questions@soim.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aureal Vortex soundcard Message-ID: <375378FD.D876174C@excite.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990601001517.6638A-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
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Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > I was just wondering if anyone has gotten a soundcard based on the Vortex > > chip to work under FreeBSD. I know that OSS (www.opensound.com) supports > > it, but I don't want to use OSS because of the problems with it. If nobody > > has gotten that card to work, then can someone point me in the right > > direction to getting specs for the card and any how-to type advice on > > writing the driver myself for FreeBSD. I'd be willing to donate the driver > > to the project if I get it working well. Thanks. It's not supported, mostly because Aureal refused to release the specs (as far as I know). However, several people (Cameron Grant and Doug Rabson) are currently working on the new sound code, and according to their postings to freebsd-multimedia, they already have an "almost functional" Aureal Vortex 1 driver. Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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