From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 5 19:26:47 2006 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 8E28216A4DA for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan@kc8onw.net) Received: from smtp2.fuse.net (mail-out2.fuse.net [216.68.8.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24A443D45 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:26:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonathan@kc8onw.net) Received: from gx4.fuse.net ([72.49.12.142]) by smtp2.fuse.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20060805192646.EHTR2008.smtp2.fuse.net@gx4.fuse.net> for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:26:46 -0400 Received: from server.kc8onw.net ([72.49.12.142]) by gx4.fuse.net (InterMail vG.1.02.00.02 201-2136-104-102-20041210) with ESMTP id <20060805192641.FQXX11137.gx4.fuse.net@server.kc8onw.net> for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:26:41 -0400 Received: from [IPv6:::1] (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by server.kc8onw.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17705A16F9 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:26:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44D4B8A7.9090209@kc8onw.net> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:26:31 +0000 From: Jonathan Stewart User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060607) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Status of HDA driver 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: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:26:47 -0000 I've been following the development of the HDA driver with a great deal of interest over the past few months as I would prefer a native solution over using the 4front drivers as I currently do. I've tried several different versions of the driver but the only one that actually worked for me was from Daniel Eischen at http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/hdac.tgz The driver works fine using mplayer or akodeplay but does not work when trying to use arts or the xine engine in amarok. I was wondering if anyone was still actually working on the HDA driver or if everyone had gotten too busy. I'm willing to help with testing and can provide shell access if it would help. I can give root privileges if really needed or collaborate over IM. I know the bare basics of C but after a quick glance at the driver it is well over my head. Looking forward to native HDA of FreeBSD, Jonathan