Subject: Re: 8-bit vs. 16-bit sound...
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/06/2000 22:38:13
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> 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.

	Definitely - but I'd like to know why the sb driver trips up on
	the emulated hardware first, in order to make that more robust.
	Not that I'm liable to have time to do much of either :(

		David/absolute
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