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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:41:37 +0100 (IST)
From:      "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>
To:        Ray Gilstrap <ratogi@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: ESS 1969 sound support?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000615094137.steveo@eircom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006141011280.17046-100000@ratogi.arc.nasa.gov>

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On 14-Jun-00 Ray Gilstrap wrote:
> Speaking of sound, I remember about a month ago there was discussion of
> support for ESS controllers, but (as I recall) not a resolution.  I have a
> Compaq Presario 1800 laptop with 4.0-S and an ESS SOLO-1 (1969)
> controller, which shows up in dmesg as
> 
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x125d, dev=0x1969) at 17.0 irq 5
> 
> I tried every combination of options I could think of to convince the
> kernel that it was a SoundBlaster, but to no avail.  Any chance of support
> anytime soon?

        There was a patch by Takanori Watanabe that got the thing
recognised with the mixer working but no PCM. Unfortunately it no longer
applies cleanly.

> Except for this, totally non-functional APM,

        That is strange, I have APM working fairly well on my 1690. The only
thing that doesn't work is suspend to disk (Compaq or Phoenix have done
something horrible and windows specific to the suspend to disk mechanism). I
suspend to memory with a script that defeats the (apparently) hardwired
fallback to disc after one hour.



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