Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:59:47 +0100
From: Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se>
To: Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org>
Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, bjk@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: snd_envy24{,ht} recording support?
Message-ID: <20130320095947.GA18683@devbox.vnode.local>
In-Reply-To: <20130320085207.b21d890c59babbeea0431da9@yamagi.org>
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:52:07AM +0100, Yamagi Burmeister wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:19:59 +0100 > David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Unfortunately the snd_envy* drivers are very bad supported. It lacks a > > lot of code to support the full card. I have had a card with a chip > > that was *supported* (but not) by the driver and I didn't manage to > > play any sound.. > > > > The current code of the driver is - I think - at early stages because > > of lot of commented code so I guess the maintainer didn't have too > > much time to spend on that. > > I don't think that we'll ever see a bigger update to the snd_env* > family. I haven't seen Konstantin Dimitrov (the maintainer) for years, > the link to the datasheets and documentation [1] is long dead and even > the existing patches like kern/152378 weren't committed. Have you tried contacting Konstantin? The last (private) mail I received from him was in July, 2011. He sent me a long mail about the state of the envy drivers in FreeBSD. It's quite interesting, but I'd rather not publish it here without his permission. -- Joel
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