Brief Report: IBM/Lenovo z60t notebook with FreeBSD

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:09:54 -0800
Remington <mrl0lz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> > AFAIK nobody is working on real HDA support ATM, so we can't give you
> > an ETA.
> 
> Alex, I appreciate the response. Surely you've heard of the opensound
> driver from 4Front Tech. Supposedly it does support Intel HDA for
> FreeBSD, but because of some way it loads itself into a kernel it fails
> to attach to a device. The developers state that is an issue with the
> way FBSD does it because the code works with OpenBSD and linux. Are you,
> or anyone else aware of this problem?

No, I don't know what the problem is. But hardware detection is a task
of the driver. So if there's a problem, it's either a bug in the
driver, or a bug in the low level probing/allocation routines of
FreeBSD. So if 4Front knows what the problem is, a mail to current@
should help (by either fixing the bug in FreeBSD, or by explaining what
to do in the driver).

Bye,
Alexander.

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