sound documentation for the snd_hda (Nvidia)

[Chuck Robey]

Rick Nekus wrote:
> Hi,
> I had an Asus P5B-Deluxe (Intel Quad-core,... AD1988b onboard audio)
> -it has the same audio chipset as yours
> yes, they are different boards, but (at that time) I had to use the OSS 
> drivers from:
> http://www.4front-tech.com/freebsd.html (read the install howto)
>  and it worked great for me.
> (but all I wanted was good quality stereo ;)
> -of course, this depends on "exactly" what you want out of it ? and if 
> you're already aware of this,... ah well.

First, top-posting is discourteous, I think.  Probably shouldn't do it.

Secondly, I run FreeBSD-current ... and those OSS drivers say they're 
for FreeBSD-6.  Will they work?

Well, regardless, I was looking at the code  in hdac.c (part of the 
snd_hda driver) and comments refer to t he fact that the driver is not 
in it's final form, that it's virtually guaranteed to change to a more 
structured buss system.  Is the code for the intended final 
implementation entered yet into cvs?  Not in final form, I know, that's 
obvious, it's not yet that far along, but if anything at all has been 
done, I would very much like to see what is meant by the comments I 
found.  I might like to contribute, if I can wrap my noggin around it

Or should I have asked on the FreeBSD-current list?.

>  
> hope this helps.
>  
> Rick.
> 
>  > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:15:59 -0500
>  > From: chuckr at chuckr.org
>  > To: FreeBSD-multimedia at freebsd.org
>  > CC:
>  > Subject: Re: sound documentation for the snd_hda (Nvidia)
>  >
>  > Chuck Robey wrote:
>  > > I have a Asus motherboard, a Striker Extreme, which has a Nvidia
>  > > chipset, and the Analog Devices 1988b IC. What I'm getting at is, I'm
>  > > not getting all that I could be getting out of it, and I want to know
>  > > more about the hardware and software that I'm using. I was 
> wondering if
>  > > the folks who originally write the snd_hda driver, that's only for the
>  > > Nvidia & Analog Devices hardware? What documentation did they work 
> with
>  > > to write that driver?
>  > >
>  > > Nvidia sells *something* (and I know precious little about that
>  > > *something*) that's supposed to improve the sound system. I don't want
>  > > to pay Asus for it until I know whether or not it's needed for the
>  > > FreeBSD driver, or if having it could help me in any way 
> whatsoever. If
>  > > it would help, Id buy it, but until I know that, I really hate feeling
>  > > like a prize chump, paying them for Windows software that I'd never 
> make
>  > > use of (I never run any M$ software).
>  > >
>  > > More than just that, I want & need whatever docs were used to form the
>  > > snd_hda driver. I'd really, really appreciate any info on that you 
> have.
>  > >
>  >
>  > Oh, I just finally realized this isn't a Nvidia thing, it's Intel, My
>  > mothergboard is Nvidia 680 based, so I'd assumed, but you know the stopy
>  > about assume, right? Well, I fihnally ran down a couple of big pdfs
>  > from Intel on this, and I have my reading time all set for myself.
>  >
>  > Now, all I need is to find the same stuff out about ... oh, not again,
>  > this time zi google a bit longer first.
>  >
>  > > Thanks.
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