From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Feb 22 16:15:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED9E37B8D9; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:15:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03164; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:24:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002230024.QAA03164@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: Darryl Okahata , Tamer Ziady , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 7k Sound In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 01:00:58 +0100." <38B3233A.F119D914@we.lc.ehu.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:24:53 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I have a laptop (Dell I3.7k) which also uses the ESS Maestro 2E, and > I could try to write a driver for that chip if I could get the > docs... I want to learn how to write a device driver for FreeBSD > (I wrote drivers for AIX some years ago, so I am not a newbie! ;-) ). > = > I am crossposting to -multimedia for this reason. Is there any > chance to get the ESS Maestro 2E docs? I read somewhere that > the newpcm developers have the docs, but perhaps a NDA has been signed.= =2E. =46rom various sources I've spoken to, the ESS M2E is a real bastard. = There doesn't actually appear to be any real documentation available even= = to developers within the company; the best that you'll ever do is source = for their Windows drivers. I'd suggest looking at the Linux driver for inspiration; you're not going= = to find much elsewhere. 8( -- = \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message