Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:00:33 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: via envy24 (ice1724) Message-ID: <39C8D154-C70C-11D8-B7AE-000D93AF6052@bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200406252250.54544.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <20040625201012.GD19825@server1.gnuconsulting.com> <20040625202331.GA8210@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200406252250.54544.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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Hi Michael, David, Thanks for posting that link, Michael. I'll have a look at that if I have time (not likely in the present circumstances, but you never know). I've got a Midiman-1010 that uses the same chip (I believe). I've been using it on FreeBSD-4-STABLE for a year or two with the aid of the commercial OSS driver from 4Front-Technologies. Yes, that costs money, but it does work, and it's a trivial amount, compared to the sound card itself. Never the less, I want to move the card to a more embedded sound-server sort of arrangement that won't necessarily be running FreeBSD-4. I also want to upgrade my FreeBSD to 5- at some stage (soon), and that'll require another licence and another driver from 4Front, at least. So the time has come to see if I can make it fly on its own... The other catch with using the OSS driver is that I have to remember to replace /usr/include/sys/soundcard.h with the OSS one, because FreeBSD's soundcard architecture has diverged a bit, and isn't completely compatible any more. I still have the odd spot of bother with some ports. Another point: in response to your original message, I did a small google search, and found a lonely mailing list post to tech-misc@netbsd.org from one Joachim Thiemann, who said that he was working on the same problem in that context. That was in 2002; it might be worth seeing how he got on. (There isn't an Envy24 driver in NetBSD-current, so maybe it's not finished either.) Cheers, -- Andrew
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