via envy24 (ice1724)
Andrew Reilly
areilly at bigpond.net.au
Fri Jun 25 18:00:49 PDT 2004
Hi Michael, David,
Thanks for posting that link, Michael. I'll have a look at that if I
have time (not likely in the present circumstances, but you never
know). I've got a Midiman-1010 that uses the same chip (I believe).
I've been using it on FreeBSD-4-STABLE for a year or two with the aid
of the commercial OSS driver from 4Front-Technologies. Yes, that costs
money, but it does work, and it's a trivial amount, compared to the
sound card itself.
Never the less, I want to move the card to a more embedded sound-server
sort of arrangement that won't necessarily be running FreeBSD-4. I
also want to upgrade my FreeBSD to 5- at some stage (soon), and that'll
require another licence and another driver from 4Front, at least. So
the time has come to see if I can make it fly on its own...
The other catch with using the OSS driver is that I have to remember to
replace /usr/include/sys/soundcard.h with the OSS one, because
FreeBSD's soundcard architecture has diverged a bit, and isn't
completely compatible any more. I still have the odd spot of bother
with some ports.
Another point: in response to your original message, I did a small
google search, and found a lonely mailing list post to
tech-misc at netbsd.org from one Joachim Thiemann, who said that he was
working on the same problem in that context. That was in 2002; it
might be worth seeing how he got on. (There isn't an Envy24 driver in
NetBSD-current, so maybe it's not finished either.)
Cheers,
--
Andrew
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