Re: Yamaha Sound Drivers
Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 19:41:41 -0500
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I am wondering on the status of sound drivers for the newer Yamaha sound
> > chipsets.
>
> Its basically dead. Even the SB emulation mode seems to need some kind of
> undocumented setup
>
> > Hopefully this information is of some use. I would like to get sound working
> > on this little box. ("It's waffer thin!") At least to stop badly written apps
> > with sound from coreing.
> >
> > I am willing to help test drivers for the YMF744B chipset, if that will help.
>
> The docs available arent sufficient basically
Is this the latest doc, dated Feb 3 1999? I just looked at it, and it
looked sufficient enough to create /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer without any
SB compatibility modes... though it documented those registers fairly
well too.
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MandrakeSoft, Inc. | bullets. -- The Brigadier, "Dr. Who"
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