From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 09:58:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FCC16A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:58:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C58F43D4C for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:58:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5D103.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.209.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jB59UPp5064235; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:30:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jB59vsW9091825; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:57:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:57:53 +0100 Message-ID: <20051205105753.e9zippbeyo8o08g4@netchild.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:57:54 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Todor Aleksandrov References: <4393345B.9020505@developer.bg> In-Reply-To: <4393345B.9020505@developer.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.3) / FreeBSD-4.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: c-media 8738-MC6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:58:04 -0000 Todor Aleksandrov wrote: > I have a box with cmedia 8738-mc6 pci card. I can get only stereo > playback with it, while the card is supporting 5.1 channels. Works > fine on linux using mplayer -channels 6 ... > I've appied the patch from http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ > I can get the new sampling rates working. Is there any chance I can > get this card running in multichannel 5.1 mode ? ONly if you want to contribute the necessary code... > FreeBSD blackbox.eta3.local 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #13: Sun Some comments not related to your question: > options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler > #options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler > #options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption You commented PREEMPTION out here and added it at the end again... > # Pseudo devices. > device loop # Network loopback > device random # Entropy device > device ether # Ethernet support > device sl # Kernel SLIP > device ppp # Kernel PPP > device tun # Packet tunnel. > device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) > device md # Memory "disks" > device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling > device faith # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation) You disable INET6, so you don't need the IPv6 parts. And if you do not explicitly use the kernel ppp, you also don't need ppp (the userland ppp uses the tun device). I also don't think you need "sl" if you have a NIC... > options CPU_UPGRADE_HW_CACHE As long as you don't have PC98 hardware, this is useless. > options CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU I think this only applies to Cyrix 5x86 CPUs, but I'm not sure... > options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK So your BIOS fails to active the SSE extension of your Athlon? If this is not the case, the option is not needed. > options AUTO_EOI_1 > options AUTO_EOI_2 Uh... if you see strange failures you can't explain, remove them. I used them too for a while (long ago), but then I encountered some problems which I fixed by removing those options. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 If you go out of your mind, do it quietly, so as not to disturb those around you.