From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 4 09:46:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCCB516A418 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:46:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2EB13C465 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:46:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A56846.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.104.70]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4842E0BD; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:46:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from deskjail (deskjail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.109]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D5981F4D; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:46:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:37:53 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20080104103753.0ab5aba2@deskjail> In-Reply-To: <477D2011.9010407@chuckr.org> References: <477D2011.9010407@chuckr.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.3; i686-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.823, required 6, BAYES_00 -15.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10, TW_SN 0.08) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the snd_hda stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:46:52 -0000 Quoting Chuck Robey (Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:49:05 -0500): > supposed to work. Reading the datasheet on the Analog Devices AD1988B > tells me (if I trust the advertising wording in that datasheet) that the > AD1988B is supposed to handle Dolby's AC3 and the DTS 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 > encoding, so I also found the specs on those encodings, which happen to > exist on the web also. > > So, my first question is, would it be legal to stick these great docs on > our website for folks to download? Or, if that wasn't legal, maybe if I > supplied the URL's, could we maybe show hotlinks for them? I know nothing > about the legalities of that, I need advice on what's legal, but I'd sure > like to make what I've gathered available to everyone. If the docs don't say it is allowed to distribute them, you better assume we are not allowed to distribute them. > Because the chip design is so very configurable, the man page is > particularly badly needed, but unfortunately, it gives me very little info. > Is there maybe some doc I haven't yet found, that might help me understand > how I could use the snd_hda driver? How to configure it, what the inputs Unfortunately not. We have an idea list entry open for documenting the sound system... > and outputs are? I can't make use of it as it stands now. I would be > willing to help on the driver, if it needs more, so if there's any more > documents on either how it works, or maybe how folks want it to work? > Please, help me on this. For a device that's so different, the need for > documentation is badly needed. You could join the IRC channel #freebsd-azalia on freenode. Ariff is hanging around there frequently. He can answer questions. Feel free to provide patches which improve the documentation. You can also read the lower half of http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/README to see what info he needs to get your soundchip working. Bye, Alexander. -- When things are going well, someone will inevitably experiment detrimentally. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137