CT5880-E 4-speaker output

[Mathew Kanner]

On Jan 09, soralx at cydem.org wrote:
> 
> Is anyone interested in patching 'es137x.c' to enable 4-speaker output
> on a CS5880-E based audio card (built into mainboard; Line-In can be
> reconfigured as another Line-Out)? I've recieved some souce code of
> DOS drivers (written in C) for the 137x-based cards from Creative,
> but I don't have enough experience to port the functionality to the
> FreeBSD dirver. Also, after I managed to completely halt my machine
> while experimenting with the driver, which almost killed the /usr
> slice (softupdates...), I'd prefer to spend the spare time I have
> on doing backups :)

	Hey, don't give up!  Bring the system to single user mode
(kill -TERM 1) and force the the disks the re-mount read-only (mount
-u -o ro /).  Then load your hacked module.  This is typically how I
test/debug kernel modules.

	--Mat

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