audiop16x driver integrated

From the HEADS UP message:

The push of CR 6878663 (PSARC 2009/384) introduces support for audio for certain Creative Sound Blaster Live! devices. If you have such a device, you can now enjoy audio playback and record support using your audio device. This driver includes 5.1 surround sound support.

Devices supported are identifiable by the PCI id pci1102,6, and are Sound Blaster Live! models SB0200 and SB0213. They have a chip labeled "EMU10K1X" (note the "X") on them. These were primarily marketed as Dell OEM versions of the Sound Blaster Live! family.

Enjoy!

audiols integrated

I've integrated the audiols driver into build 124 (actually I think this might have been the first push into snv124 -- thanks to jmcp for approving it so quickly!) From my HEADS UP message:

The push of CR 6875005 introduces support for audio for Creative Audigy LS devices. If you have such a device, you can now enjoy audio playback and record support using your audio device.

Devices supported are identifiable by the PCI id pci1102,7. Known compatible devices include Creative Audigy LS, Creative Audigy SE, Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit, and Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio.

This driver includes 5.1 surround sound support.

Bugs for this driver should be filed in bugster using solaris/audio/driver-audiols.

Assorted audio cards needed

4Front has provided some drivers for me, which are nearly complete, but which need some attention. However, I am lacking hardware for a number of these drivers, and have not had good success finding many of them on eBay. If you have access to spare cards to donate, or even sell, please let me know.

Here's a short list of cards:

1. CS4281 (I tried to purchase one of these, but they shipped me an ESS Solo-1 instead!)
2. CS4280
   
3. FM-801 (ideally a 6-channel variant)
4. CMI 8768
5. CMI 8738 (6-channel, or even 8-channel varient)
6. CMI 8788 (these are high end cards, they can be purchased, but right now I'd have to fund this myself if I want to work on the driver -- its not a priority. This is typically the Asus Xonar card.)

There are probably other interesting audio cards as well.

It should be said that the recent work on some of these cards is occurring on my own time, since I have higher priorities (not soundcard related) during my day job, which is why its hard for me to ask Sun to provide funding for these things. (In the case of cs4281 and fm-801 cards, I've found them hard to even locate. Witness my failed attempt to purchase a CS4281. Taiwanese vendors consider these interchangeable parts. :-(

audiols works nicely on sparc

Just for giggles, I went ahead and tested it:

audiols/fortyfive> pfexec audiotest -5 /dev/dsp1
Sound subsystem and version: SunOS Audio 4.0 (0x00040003)
Platform: SunOS 5.11 snv_119 sun4u

*** Scanning sound adapter #2 ***
/dev/sound/audiols:0dsp (audio engine 1): audiols#0
  - Performing audio playback test...
    <left> ................OK
    <right> ...............OK
    <stereo> ..............OK
    <left rear> ...........OK
    <right rear> ..........OK
    <center> ..............OK
    <lfe> .................SKIPPED
    <5.0 surround> ........OK
    <measured sample rate 47952.00 Hz (-0.10%)>

*** All tests completed OK ***
audiols/fortyfive> uname -a
SunOS fortyfive 5.11 snv_119 sun4u sparc SUNW,A70

I'll go ahead and include SPARC support after all. Maybe someone with an Ultra 45 or 25 will like this.

AudigyLS Boomer Driver Posted

I've posted test binaries for the AudigyLS driver for Boomer systems. There is also a webrev posted. These are test binaries only! Use at your OWN RISK!

If you do use them, please let me know how it goes.

Thanks!

Surround Sound on SPARC?

I'm about ready to integrate the Audigy LS audio driver, which is a PCI add-in card that is capable of 5.1 surround sound. (I've been working on it in the "off" hours, as I currently have other higher priority projects that I'm working on while doing work on Sun's nickel; this explains why it has taken so long.)

I have one quick question: does anyone really want to have this work on SPARC systems? The only tangible advantages I could see for this are:

• If your internal audio device is busted, there is another alternative.
• If you have some compelling reason to want surround sound support on your SPARC system.

Right now because the effort to qualify and integrate takes a while, and because I hate the idea of integrating bloatware that nobody is going to use, I am not planning on integrating SPARC support for this driver. However, if at least one or two people speak up and tell me that this is something that they want, then I'm much more likely to take the time to do the work. (The driver should Just Work on SPARC, its mostly a matter of running the tests, which take a few hours.)

So, if this is something you want, let me know!

Community Contributions

I've recently (in the past week) integrated a small improvement from Roland ( so kernel code can use C99 booleans (supposedly there are performance gains for using this relative to boolean_t), and a major overhaul and conversion to GLDv3 for the legacy "dnet" driver from Steve Stallion.

I would like to thank both contributors for their patience. Neither of these was a particularly trivial integration. Steve in particular worked on this integration for quite a long time, due largely to the high cost of getting such a crufty driver to pass through NICDRV.