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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Richard Earnshaw [SMTP:rearnsha@arm.com]
> > Sent:	Thursday, February 04, 1999 10:14 AM
> > To:	Ib-Michael Martinsen
> > Cc:	port-arm32@NETBSD.org; richard.earnshaw@arm.com
> > Subject:	Re: Questions about sound, MIDI and top. 
> > 
> > > Apart from the irritative system beep is it possible to get (hear)
> > > some decent sound (wav-, mpg3-, aiff-files etc.) out of a
> > > StrongArmed RiscPC equipped with an EagleM2 sound card?
> > > 
> > Haven't managed to get anything more than the beep out of mine, some day I
> > 
> > might look at the vidc sound code.  No idea about the EagleM2 care.
> > 
> Somewhere I did have a driver that did vaguely work.  If I remember it did
> play files, the biggest problem was that the beep then didn't work.  I never
> got around to submitting it or sorting out the beep problem.  I don't think
> it had a volume control either, there was rather a lack of docs on the RPC
> motherboard and how the VIDC and sound filtering worked on it. I'll try and
> dig it out.  At the moment I've not got a working NetBSD system, so I've no
> idea how easily the driver would slot into the tree as it stands (I did this
> pre UVM)

Hmm, if I remember correctly, both the vidcaudio and beep devices are 
"attached" directly to vidc and manipulate the sound registers directly.  
I suspect that if you've got a "working" vidcaudio device (modulo pulling 
it up to current), the beep should really be attached to that in some way.

R.