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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:47:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Audio support [was Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912121345260.6070-100000@tecra.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <38539EC2.7894323A@scc.nl>

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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> Doug Rabson wrote:
> > 
> > > The recent commits made existing support even worse. Yes, I'm talking
> > > about the ESS1888. It's more dead than before. I'll have to make the
> > > noise myself these days, and I can tell you it's no opera :-)
> > >
> > > In short: Gimme patches! I'll be happy to test and, in a spare hour, can
> > > even do some trial and error on my own. I'm not going to beg...
> > 
> > Which commits broke the ESS1888? I haven't tested it for a couple of weeks
> > but I have an ESS1888 in one of my alpha boxes which worked a while ago
> > after I fixed a few bits and pieces in the driver.
> 
> The first breakage was with the introduction of newmidi IIRC. The mixer
> worked, but any dsp related functions were broken.
> 
> See: sys/dev/sound/isa/es1888.c rev 1.3
> 
> In recent kernel even the mixer is dead and the soundcard is left in a
> state where all volumes are zeroed, preventing audio CD playing as well.
> 
> See: sys/dev/sound/isa/es1888.c rev 1.4

I'll look into this. It won't be today though since I have an Aikido
grading to go to this afternoon.

> 
> Relevant kernel config options:
> 
> options         PNPBIOS
> controller      isa0
> controller      eisa0
> controller      pci0
> controller      pnp0
> device          pcm0
> 
> I have to re-enable sbc0 to see if any changes therein apply to ESS as
> well. Should I have sbc0 in the first place?

I think so. I'll make sure when I get a chance to hack on this.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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