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Starting with build 93, OpenSolaris will no longer have support for the ISA based SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16, and SoundBlaster AWE32 devices. This shouldn't impact anyone, although its possible that bochs or qemu users may be impacted. (I've not heard of any such users successfully able to use the sbpro driver in a Solaris guest environment though.) In the future, we may look into adding support for emulated ESS 1370 devices. In the meantime, VirtualBox emulates an Intel ICH based AC'97 support, which works with the audio810 driver.

Its possible that is just showing up for me, but recently the "toolbar" at the top of my blog has become unusuable. Instead of a normal set of links, I just get a row of repeated Blogger icons. I'm using firefox 2.0.0.7 on Solaris Nevada. Anyone else seen this?

I'm interested in collecting data about audio devices that folks are using. So, I've a few questions, which maybe folks could send answers to me. Here are the questions: Is there already support in Solaris for your audio devices/needs? (If yes, stop here, and no need to send me any information -- you're already covered as a "mainstream" user.) If you're using 4Front's OSS, and you're using a hardware driver other than apci97 , hdaudio , ich , via8233 , atiaudio , then please let me know what driver you are using, and what the actual audio hardware is ( cat /dev/sndstat might be useful here.) (If the audio is built into a motherboard, I'd like to know the make/model of computer, and the rough date -- year -- that you purchased it.) Do you use/would you use hardware MIDI support? Are you using digital audio (Dolby Digital/AC3, and/or SPDIF) on your Solaris system? If so, please provide detail. Do you have any use for more than a single active...

It seems to be a recurring theme, but we keep hearing about different WLAN parts that don't work with NDIS wrapper, or other problems building the NDIS wrapper etc. I've never used the NDIS wrapper, and I refuse to do so. I also refuse to purchase or recommend any laptop with a Broadcom WLAN part on it, at least until Broadcom changes their position and makes it possible for 3rd parties (even under NDA) to develop device drivers for their WLAN products. The reason is simple: until laptop manufacturers start losing sales due to people who take the same position, they won't stop including Broadcom WLAN on their products. The loss of a few individual WLAN cards won't impact Broadcom at all, but if Gateway or Dell stops purchasing WLAN parts, then its a whole new ballgame. And the more laptop vendors that we can get to understand that use of Broadcom leads to lost sales, the more impact it will have. Either Broadcom will take notice, and correct their behavior (e.g. by ...

Its been a busy week. In the past week, there have been three separate putbacks: 1) Kerry Shut putback a fix for audiohd to suspend/resume 2) Brian Xu putback a fix for iwk to suspend/resume 3) Judy Chen putback a fix for ath to suspend/resume The upshot of this is, if you have a laptop with an Nvidia graphics card, its a fair chance that your laptop will support suspend (and resume!) A big thanks to everyone who's been working on this.