snd_envy24{,ht} recording support?

[Yamagi Burmeister]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:59:47 +0100
Joel Dahl <joel at vnode.se> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:52:07AM +0100, Yamagi Burmeister wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:19:59 +0100
> > David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Unfortunately the snd_envy* drivers are very bad supported. It lacks a
> > > lot of code to support the full card. I have had a card with a chip
> > > that was *supported* (but not) by the driver and I didn't manage to
> > > play any sound..
> > > 
> > > The current code of the driver is - I think - at early stages because
> > > of lot of commented code so I guess the maintainer didn't have too
> > > much time to spend on that.
> > 
> > I don't think that we'll ever see a bigger update to the snd_env*
> > family. I haven't seen Konstantin Dimitrov (the maintainer) for years,
> > the link to the datasheets and documentation [1] is long dead and even
> > the existing patches like kern/152378 weren't committed.
> 
> Have you tried contacting Konstantin? The last (private) mail I received from
> him was in July, 2011. He sent me a long mail about the state of the envy
> drivers in FreeBSD. It's quite interesting, but I'd rather not publish it here
> without his permission.

Hello Konstantin,
a few days ago a discussion over the snd_envy* driver family arose in
multimedia@ [1]. It led to the question if you're still working on the
drivers and if future updates can be expected. A short statement would
be really appreciated. :)

Ciao,
Yamagi

1:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2013-March/013924.html


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