From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 01:00:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE78616A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:00:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gizmo04ps.bigpond.com (gizmo04ps.bigpond.com [144.140.71.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDA5643D48 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:00:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from areilly@bigpond.net.au) Received: (qmail 27046 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2004 00:48:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO psmam02.bigpond.com) (144.135.25.72) by gizmo04ps.bigpond.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 2004 00:48:18 -0000 Received: from cpe-138-130-188-103.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([138.130.188.103]) by psmam02.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2a 80/1334704) with SMTP id 1334704; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:00:19 +1000 Received: (qmail 763 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2004 01:00:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.1.197?) (10.0.1.197) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Jun 2004 01:00:20 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200406252250.54544.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <20040625201012.GD19825@server1.gnuconsulting.com> <20040625202331.GA8210@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200406252250.54544.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <39C8D154-C70C-11D8-B7AE-000D93AF6052@bigpond.net.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Andrew Reilly Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:00:33 +1000 To: Michael Nottebrock X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) cc: David Bishop cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: via envy24 (ice1724) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:00:49 -0000 Hi Michael, David, Thanks for posting that link, Michael. I'll have a look at that if I have time (not likely in the present circumstances, but you never know). I've got a Midiman-1010 that uses the same chip (I believe). I've been using it on FreeBSD-4-STABLE for a year or two with the aid of the commercial OSS driver from 4Front-Technologies. Yes, that costs money, but it does work, and it's a trivial amount, compared to the sound card itself. Never the less, I want to move the card to a more embedded sound-server sort of arrangement that won't necessarily be running FreeBSD-4. I also want to upgrade my FreeBSD to 5- at some stage (soon), and that'll require another licence and another driver from 4Front, at least. So the time has come to see if I can make it fly on its own... The other catch with using the OSS driver is that I have to remember to replace /usr/include/sys/soundcard.h with the OSS one, because FreeBSD's soundcard architecture has diverged a bit, and isn't completely compatible any more. I still have the odd spot of bother with some ports. Another point: in response to your original message, I did a small google search, and found a lonely mailing list post to tech-misc@netbsd.org from one Joachim Thiemann, who said that he was working on the same problem in that context. That was in 2002; it might be worth seeing how he got on. (There isn't an Envy24 driver in NetBSD-current, so maybe it's not finished either.) Cheers, -- Andrew