Subject: Re: nforce 2 audio?
To: Quentin Garnier <netbsd-current-users@quatriemek.com>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 05/08/2003 12:42:45
On 5/8/03 12:05 PM, "Quentin Garnier" <netbsd-current-users@quatriemek.com>
wrote:
> Le 08 May 2003 17:56:59 +0300
> Arto Huusko a ecrit :
>> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 17:42, Quentin Garnier wrote:
>>> Le 08 May 2003 17:32:19 +0300
>>> Arto Huusko a ecrit :
> [...]
>> contains also support for making the digital 5.1 audio work. Or that's
>> what my brother said (he's running RedHat 8).
>
> Well, at least the source tarball doesn't contain anything about 5.1
> audio. Maybe the binary rpm for RH8 does, but even though everything can
> be expected from NVidia, I doubt it.
The nvidia-supplied "audio support" in the package that I looked at was
nothing more than a one-line patch to Linux's i810 audio driver to match on
the vendor/product ID pair on the nForce2 chipset.
I would suspect that the 5.1 support is in Linux's i810 driver if it's
present at all.
Cheers,
Jared