On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:03:55PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > (like a voodoo banshee, right, Nikhil??) :)
i guess any 3dfx card'll do! ;P
>
> Here I would like to say something. I have posted this already. I made
> this card work under OSS as Creative Ensoniq PCI Audio 128. Now I know OSS
> is commercial driver and is no permanent solution. But ALSA does support
> Creative Ensoniq. So ALSA *should* be able to play it.
>
the commercial OSS driver _has_ support for the YMF724. there's no need trying
to make it work with another driver. In fact u must've used its driver only...
There's absolutely _NO_ possibility to make the Creative Ensoniq driver to work
with the YMF724, as the Creative driver does a PCI vendor scan and Yamaha's PCI
vendor ID is radically different from Creative's. I guess u just got confused
somewhere along the way. U better check this up again.
> I gave it a try and was unsuccessful. It said resource busy or something
> like that. But I remember I did not set the IRQ reported by BIOS on POST
> screen. I was using one reported by OSS drivers and /proc/interuppts. That
> might make difference. But I did not get time to work around it..
>
a driver says resource busy, when the card isn't found at the required PCI
address... The PCI command register specs are out in the Yamaha's spec. But the
DS-1 internal working is not described. And yamaha is hiding something which is
required to initialize the card as a SB-PRO compatible. unless this is resolved,
there is _no_ way to get this card working. if someone can tell me a PCI lib on
DOS, i could see if real mode/protected mode interrupts may be the cause... cuz
this card is supported in BeOS. If they could do it, so can we! ;)
> Somebody who has enough time to hack should think this as a solution.
>
> I believe it will be simplest solution available...
>
I seriously doubt it...
Nikhil.
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