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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 1999 04:33:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ESS 1868 driver (again)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911040432080.78727-100000@lcm202.cvzoom.net>
In-Reply-To: <199911040818.JAA37674@info.iet.unipi.it>

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On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> guys, you should realize that the ESS1868 codecs (and friends)
> are extremely unfriendly to the programmer, and possibly
> (according to Sanpei comments) broken in their handling of
> auto-dma. As a consequence i cannot believe anyone wants to
> write a driver for this chip fighting against all idiosincracies
> of the hardware and its ugly design.
> 
> If you have a machine with that card, just replace it with a better
> supported one. If you have a laptop with that card, well, you have

Which members of the SoundBlaster family are supported?  Is the
SoundBlaster 16 WavEffects supported?  I'd like to get one of the
wavetable synth models.

Thanks.

- Donn



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