Subject: Re: 8-bit vs. 16-bit sound...
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/02/2000 07:56:50
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:19:05AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> Just a related question - the sb emulation on my thinkpad is
> broken (it just loops the first section of any sample).
> Its detected as:
> sb0 at isa0 port 0x220-0x237 irq 5 drq 1: dsp v3.01
> audio0 at sb0: half duplex, mmap, independent
> pnpbios reports the (ignored) resources as:
> ESS1681 (io 220-22f 388-38b 330-331, irq 5, dma 1)
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to try to get this to
> work (-current) - obviously a native driver would be nice, but
> I'd prefer to get the emulated sb working first...
Really, if it were me, I'd try to get a native driver working :-) The
datasheets for many ESS ISA chips are on the ESS web site... it could
probably be made to work with the current `ess' driver.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>