Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:50:48 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> To: soralx@cydem.org Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CT5880-E 4-speaker output Message-ID: <20040109155048.GS38657@cnd.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <200401082355.03988.soralx@cydem.org> References: <200401082355.03988.soralx@cydem.org>
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On Jan 09, soralx@cydem.org wrote: > > Is anyone interested in patching 'es137x.c' to enable 4-speaker output > on a CS5880-E based audio card (built into mainboard; Line-In can be > reconfigured as another Line-Out)? I've recieved some souce code of > DOS drivers (written in C) for the 137x-based cards from Creative, > but I don't have enough experience to port the functionality to the > FreeBSD dirver. Also, after I managed to completely halt my machine > while experimenting with the driver, which almost killed the /usr > slice (softupdates...), I'd prefer to spend the spare time I have > on doing backups :) Hey, don't give up! Bring the system to single user mode (kill -TERM 1) and force the the disks the re-mount read-only (mount -u -o ro /). Then load your hacked module. This is typically how I test/debug kernel modules. --Mat -- Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. - Chekhov
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