From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 07:54:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE30716A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 07:54:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (hak.cnd.mcgill.ca [132.216.11.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F54743D1F for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 07:54:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca) Received: from hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i09Fom15054902; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:50:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca) Received: (from mat@localhost) by hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id i09FomfT054901; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:50:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:50:48 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner To: soralx@cydem.org Message-ID: <20040109155048.GS38657@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <200401082355.03988.soralx@cydem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401082355.03988.soralx@cydem.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: I speak for myself, operating in Montreal, CANADA X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on hak.cnd.mcgill.ca cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CT5880-E 4-speaker output X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:54:24 -0000 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