From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 31 23: 6:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from maildns.FSBDial.co.uk (maildns.fsbdial.co.uk [195.89.137.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FDA15636 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 23:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dlombardo@excite.com) Received: from [212.1.135.41] by maildns.freenet.co.uk (NTMail 4.30.0008/NT0619.00.8ceac940) with ESMTP id ishqgaaa for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 07:01:54 +0100 Message-ID: <375378FD.D876174C@excite.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 07:09:01 +0100 From: Dean Lombardo Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: questions@soim.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aureal Vortex soundcard References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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