Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:28:26 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loss of Functionality with newpnp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909271026280.322-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <19990926160519.A350@dmaddox.conterra.com>
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On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 12:29:46PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > But we do have a working driver for the AWE64. Or rather, it worked fine > > > before the new PnP code was comitted, now it doesn't. It seems to me that > > > this indicates a deficiency in the new PnP code. Isn't that correct? > > > > No. > > > > I have already explained to you that the AWE64 driver that you were > > using (one actually of _three_ that we have) only worked with PnP cards > > as an accidental side-effect of the old PnP code. Now that the PnP > > code has been fixed, the brokenness of the old driver is exposed. > > Can you give me a few hints on what would be necessary to get the old > driver to work with the new PnP? I confess ignorance of both PnP and > soundcard programming, but I am willing to try to fix it if fixing it > is within my means. It requires converting the ancient voxware driver to newbus which isn't really feasable. > > It's amazing that one of the most popular sound cards of all time, one > that works fine on practically every OS from DOS3.3 to Linux and BeOS, > is of no concern to FBSD developers :-/ My AWE64 works just fine. WaveTable support will arrive after the new midi driver is committed. If you want to test and/or work on that, please talk to the author, Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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