On 03/10/10 06:17 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
> On 03/11/10 03:08 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> On 03/10/10 05:42 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> Hmm... reading the code for audiohd.c, it looks like it just outputs
>> the same data to the SPDIF port as plays over the front analog channel.
>>
>> For the emu10k parts (Audigy), it looks like I just output to the
>> SPDIF port if it is present, its just a digital copy of the same data
>> that is played over the analog port. (Without analog distortions of
>> course!)
>>
>
> OK, well it looks like this device doesn't work, at least from flash
> (BBC iPlayer).
>
> I'll have to wait for Envy24 support to get decent music out of this
> system.
Bummer. Hopefully we'll get that sorted out soon.
- Garrett
>
> Thanks,
>
