From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 17 17:19:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.fw-sj.sony.com (mail6.fw-sj.sony.com [198.93.2.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A69637BBC1 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 17:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbowen@kiku.slt.sel.sony.com) Received: from mail2.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (mail2.sjc.in.sel.sony.com [43.134.1.111]) by mail6.fw-sj.sony.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15886; Thu, 18 May 2000 00:19:36 GMT Received: by mail2.sjc.in.sel.sony.com id AAA00831; Thu, 18 May 2000 00:19:35 GMT Received: from slt.sel.Sony.com (orchid [43.134.133.24]) by tulip.slt.sel.sony.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03194; Wed, 17 May 2000 17:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39233716.DD4020F0@slt.sel.Sony.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:19:35 -0700 From: Robert Bowen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESS Solo (1394) support in 4.0-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Not only does Linux have support for it, but so do NetBSD AND OpenBSD. I never thought I'd see the day when FreeBSD had less x86 hardware support than OpenBSD! I asked about porting it over, but no-one had any tips. I am in the middle of finals right now, but maybe I will give it a stab over the summer if someone better doesn't get to it first (please, please, please!). Theoretically it should be easy to do, right??? Ted Sikora wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: > > >>>>> "VK" == Vivek Khera writes: > > VK> m/b) to run is using the OSS drivers from 4front. They do not support > VK> FBSD 4.0 though, which is most annoying. > > One more note: later linux kernels have beta drivers for this card, so > perhaps some kind soul may port that over... I have no idea how to do > it. It does work excellent under Linux. I have a Linux box with an ASuS mb with the onboard ESS Solo1 audio. The driver is part of the standard 2.2 kernel. Has been since 2.1 I think. -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message