From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Feb 17 21:25:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D420A37B404; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:25:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 826D9AE6DF; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:25:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:25:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mike Meyer Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, cg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sis 7012 sound support? Message-ID: <20020218052537.GQ12136@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020218040421.GP12136@elvis.mu.org> <15472.32816.147696.657423@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15472.32816.147696.657423@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cameron, any objections if I commit the patches contained in the PR? * Mike Meyer [020217 20:16] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein types: > > Anyone have any luck getting the Sis 7012 sound chipset (ac97) > > working? I can provide tester feedback if anyone has > > anything. > > Yeah, I have it working with a patched version of the ich driver. It > doesn't record worth using, though, so I've disabled it. I filed a PR > with patches, and you can get them with this command: > > fetch -o ichp "http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35012&f=raw" > > then edit ichp to delete either the -current or -stable patches. The > ich driver in -stable doesn't record, and the differences between the > two patches is mostly adding the changes for recording -current to > -stable. If you don't want that - and don't want to add extra code > from -current - you can use the patches for -current on -stable, but > will have to apply one of the patches by hand. I've had at least one > report of that working. > > The one thing I'm watching for is if it reports DMA overruns. I > believe the newpcm architecture avoids the situation that can cause > that on the SiS chips, but I'm not positive. If it happens, I've got a > fix. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message