Re: OSS maestro driver alpha

Klaus Lichtenwalder (Klaus.Lichtenwalder@webforum.de)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:04:00 +0100 (WET DST)


Zach,

looks like it's running fine on my laptop.

Here's the output:

Aug 23 18:06:10 tintin kernel: maestro: version 0.03 time 18:02:34 Aug 23 1999
Aug 23 18:06:10 tintin kernel: maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2 at 0xFC00
Aug 23 18:06:10 tintin kernel: maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x414b4d00 3d: 0x0 caps: 0x0
Aug 23 18:06:10 tintin kernel: maestro: 8 channels configured.

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Zach Brown wrote:

> thanks to lunch with ess engineers and the hospitality of Hack Central, we
> now have a partially working OSS driver for the ESS Maestro family of
> chips.
>
> caveat: it only half works.
>
> but the half that works gets you 16bit stereo output untill the buffers
> get a bit out of sync or the thing leaks your machine to death. at least,
> on my maestro 2 it does.
>
> http://people.redhat.com/zab/maestro/
>
> If you're brave, please give it a try and let me know how it does on your
> hardware. I'm especially curious to find out what ac97s actually work,
> and wether or not anyone out there has a maestro with a pt101 on.
>
> alsa dudes, feel free to drop me some mail and I'll happily chat you
> through the gotchas in the hardware. I don't have time now to wrap my wee
> noggin around the highly complex alsa architecture.
>
> - -- zach
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