On 03/11/10 02:21 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > On 03/10/10 04:55 PM, Ian Collins wrote: >> On 03/11/10 01:48 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> On 03/10/10 04:34 PM, Ian Collins wrote: >>>> On 03/11/10 01:31 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>>>> On 03/10/10 04:20 PM, Ian Collins wrote: >>>>>> I have an M-Audio 2496 PCI card that I'm sure used to be >>>>>> supported by OSS (I exchanged a couple of emails with Dev >>>>>> Mazumdar back in 2005). >>>>>> >>>>>> Is the chip no longer supported, I can't find an OpenSolaris driver. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Its not supported by OpenSolaris at present. In the past, 4Front >>>>> had a version of the drivers that worked with it, but that was >>>>> before the audio DDI was so drastically changed by Boomer back in >>>>> build 115. (Note that the Audio DDI has never been a "public" >>>>> API.) This is a problem we hope to address soon. >>>>> >>>> OK, thanks for the feedback. If there is anything I can do to help >>>> (I have worked on Solaris drivers), let me know as I have an >>>> incentive! >>>> >>>> I'm looking at getting decent quality audio (preferably SPDIF, with >>>> the M_Audio analogue as second choice) out of an OpenSolaris >>>> system. If neither SPDIF or the M-Audio cars are supported, I'm >>>> out of luck! >>> >>> We have SPDIF on some other hardware already. But be advised that >>> SPDIF support in OpenSolaris is limited to 48 kHz uncompressed >>> 16-bit stereo. We don't have any AC3 support in Open Solaris. >> >> 48 kHz uncompressed 16-bit stereo is exactly what I'm looking for, >> which devices are supported? >> >> This box has an 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller. > > If it has an SPDIF output on the board, it might Just Work. (AudioHD > device support varies with the actual codec.) Some other Creative > based devices have working SPDIF as well -- I think certain > audioemu10k (Audigy 2 for example) boards support it. >
Is there a simple means for testing, such as selecting between analogue and digital out? Or will they both work simultaneously? -- Ian.
