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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:02:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ESS 1969 sound support?
Message-ID:  <14663.62190.740982.873850@onceler.kcilink.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006141011280.17046-100000@ratogi.arc.nasa.gov>
References:  <200006141708.KAA26673@mass.cdrom.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006141011280.17046-100000@ratogi.arc.nasa.gov>

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>>>>> "RG" == Ray Gilstrap <ratogi@eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:

RG> Speaking of sound, I remember about a month ago there was
RG> discussion of support for ESS controllers, but (as I recall) not a

That's what I recall as well.  My desktop is an ASUS P2B-N integrated
motherboard and has the ESS Solo-1 sound chip on it.  Under 3.4 I'm
using the OSS sound drivers from 4front, but they seem to be ignoring
request and questions about supporting 4.0.

This is the only thing keeping me from updgrading to 4.0.  I'd really
like to since then I can run my vmware on it as well, which currently
I have to do using a remote Linux box just for that purpose ;-(

There was mention that OpenBSD recognizes this chip.  How different
are the sound driver upper layers between OpenBSD and FreeBSD?  Would
it be a simple copy with some minor adjustments or would it be pretty
much a rewrite based on the info gleaned from the driver?  I'm sure
porting the Linux driver for this chip would be a lot of work...

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