Re: What is the actual status of Audigy2 support in 5.1-CURRENT?

> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:08:07 -0400
> From: Tom Parquette <tparquet_at_twcny.rr.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I would like to get an Audigy2 Platnum card working on my AMD dual 
> processor system.  I'm 5.1-CURRENT but I tend to hang back a little.
> I have "device pcm" and "device sbc" in the kernel.  When the system 
> didn't figure out the card I added "device firewire" "device sbp" and 
> "device fwe" to the kernel to see if the probes could figure out the 
> firewire interface.
> 
> The system appears to locate the firewire components of the card.
> It does not seem to understand the sound component.  I get the following 
> at boot time:
> pci2: <multimedia, audio> at device 5.0 (no driver attached)
> 
> I was following the discussion on the -current list about the Sound 
> Blaster Audigy2 support.  I do not know if the discussion continued off 
> list but I suspect it might have.
> 
> A dogpile search turned up a patch file  emu10k2.txt.  From the 
> discussion thread in bsdforums I was unable to determine if this was the 
> same patch file also mentioned in the -current mailing list threads. 
> The first few lines of the patch file I have read:
> diff -u old-emu10k1/emu10k1.c new-emu10k2/emu10k1.c
> --- old-emu10k1/emu10k1.c       Mon Feb 10 03:01:34 2003
> +++ new-emu10k2/emu10k1.c       Thu Feb 13 05:36:10 2003
> _at__at_ -1,4 +1,5 _at__at_
>   /*
> + * Copyright (c) 2003 Orlando Bassotto <orlando.bassotto_at_ieo-research.it>
> 
> Whereis does not tell me the location of emu10k1.c.
> 
> Can someone in the know clear this up for me?

Can't say that I am "in the know", but...
% locate emu10k1.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pci/emu10k1.c

In general, locate(1) is a much better tool for finding random source
files.
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