Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:26:19 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: "Doug Rabson" <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: "Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai" <asmodai@wxs.nl>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? Message-ID: <002601bf7bc7$a1fbb800$d3bda2c2@hardcore> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002201653200.77743-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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with my ymf744 it's a little different... things get vey tricky if you want to change a laptop's embedded audio chipset ;-) anyway, vaio n505x has a neomagic256av chipset onboard, i wonder why the sony boys implement a second chip for the audio stuff if the graphics chipset would also support audio functions (or did i get something wrong in the neomagic256av threads of the last months?)... /k -- The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom. -W. Blake Karsten W. Rohrbach - Senior Research Engineer - Nacamar Data Communications one world. one net. nacamar - http://www.nacamar.net This was written on the road... Answers to your reply could be delayed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Rabson" <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: "Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai" <asmodai@wxs.nl>; "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>; <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 5:54 PM Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > > > > > Well Doug, > > > > > > you're in the UK, so part of the European Community. > > > > > > And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are > > > now legally clean of action due to the law that you may > > > disassemble/reverse engineer their drivers to obtain the information you > > > need to program the driver. > > > > > > For once, a cool law in Europe. > > > > The U.S. Supreme Court made this exactly ruling one or two weeks ago. > > Unfortunately (fortunately?) I'm not intending to spend the time necessary > to reverse-engineer specs for this thing. Besides I swapped the card with > a colleague for one which works... > > -- > 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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