OSS driver on current

Oliver Herold oliver at akephalos.de
Fri Oct 12 09:22:24 PDT 2007


Hi,

there are drivers for ICE/Via Envy24 based cards,

/boot/kernel/snd_envy24.ko
/boot/kernel/snd_envy24ht.ko

Cheers, Oliver


On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:01:13PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> > Please can you tell me if the OSS driver is running on current?
> > i installed and tried it, and when running osstest the computer locks
> > up playing an infinite loop of near 1/2 second; same behaviour playing
> > any sound files.
> 
> before I test the latest OSS driver (build 1008) on my
> 6.2-RELEASE-p8 / SB Live (which will be tonight), I have
> some questions:
> 
> Are there any plans to integrate the "good bits" of the now-open
> OSS code into the FreeBSD tree? Are there gonna be any changes
> to the sound(4) interface? Are there gonna be drivers for the
> good-but-yet-unsupported cards (MAudio, Envy)?
> 
> If yes, then I am willing to be testing the portions commited to
> the tree. If no, does anyone have a serious comparison of the
> OSS vs. native drivers?
> 
> 	Thanks
> 
> 		Jan
> 
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