From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 12 5:38:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCB714E52 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 05:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from tecra.nlsystems.com (tecra.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.5]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA56462; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:47:29 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:47:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audio support [was Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!] In-Reply-To: <38539EC2.7894323A@scc.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > > > The recent commits made existing support even worse. Yes, I'm talking > > > about the ESS1888. It's more dead than before. I'll have to make the > > > noise myself these days, and I can tell you it's no opera :-) > > > > > > In short: Gimme patches! I'll be happy to test and, in a spare hour, can > > > even do some trial and error on my own. I'm not going to beg... > > > > Which commits broke the ESS1888? I haven't tested it for a couple of weeks > > but I have an ESS1888 in one of my alpha boxes which worked a while ago > > after I fixed a few bits and pieces in the driver. > > The first breakage was with the introduction of newmidi IIRC. The mixer > worked, but any dsp related functions were broken. > > See: sys/dev/sound/isa/es1888.c rev 1.3 >  > In recent kernel even the mixer is dead and the soundcard is left in a > state where all volumes are zeroed, preventing audio CD playing as well. > > See: sys/dev/sound/isa/es1888.c rev 1.4 I'll look into this. It won't be today though since I have an Aikido grading to go to this afternoon. > > Relevant kernel config options: > > options PNPBIOS > controller isa0 > controller eisa0 > controller pci0 > controller pnp0 > device pcm0 > > I have to re-enable sbc0 to see if any changes therein apply to ESS as > well. Should I have sbc0 in the first place? I think so. I'll make sure when I get a chance to hack on this. -- 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