From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 4 1:35:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3CC014CF8 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 01:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: from lcm202.cvzoom.net (lcm202.cvzoom.net [208.230.69.202]) by ns.cvzoom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA12017; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 04:15:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 04:33:38 -0500 (EST) From: Donn Miller To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ESS 1868 driver (again) In-Reply-To: <199911040818.JAA37674@info.iet.unipi.it> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message