Re: Maestro3/Allegro: (was ESS device "1998")

2000-11-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > *nod* Its the usual mc97 codec setup that leaves the hard work for the > processor. I'm sure one can play around with the dsp on it as well, > but we don't have specs on the dsp's internals. And if we had dsp specs, it would not help us. There's no freely available v.34 stack, and v.31bi

Maestro3/Allegro: (was ESS device "1998")

2000-11-02 Thread Zach Brown
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:03:41PM +, Mo McKinlay wrote: > I recently obtained an HP Omnibook XE2 laptop. It's a reasonably As people have mentioned, there is an alpha free driver near http://www.zabbo.net/maestro3/. Its not quite up to par yet. maybe the web page should talk a bit more

Re: ESS device "1998"

2000-11-02 Thread Mo McKinlay
Today, Martin Dalecki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The chip you are talking about is a maestro-3. It's a hybris chip > between a CS and an Alegro. The OSS sound drivers support it > already. > However there is no free driver for it currently out there. > If you get the current mae

Re: ESS device "1998"

2000-11-02 Thread Bob_Tracy
Mo McKinlay wrote: > 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 1998 > 00:0d.1 Communication controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 1999 > > Any hints/clues/etc welcome. Welcome to the "wonderful" world of the Maestro 3i. You'll find the following URL to be of inter

Re: ESS device "1998"

2000-11-02 Thread Alan Cox
> However there is no free driver for it currently out there. > If you get the current maestro open driver to recognize the chip > at least the mixer will start to work. Zab posted the first one out a couple of days ago. > > 00:0d.1 Communication controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 1999

Re: ESS device "1998"

2000-11-02 Thread Martin Dalecki
Mo McKinlay wrote: > > I recently obtained an HP Omnibook XE2 laptop. It's a reasonably > nicely-specced machine, although (unsuprsingly) the hardware isn't too > well supported with Linux. > > I've given up on the internal modem (I'm 90% sure it's some kind of > software modem, and I have an ex

ESS device "1998"

2000-11-02 Thread Mo McKinlay
I recently obtained an HP Omnibook XE2 laptop. It's a reasonably nicely-specced machine, although (unsuprsingly) the hardware isn't too well supported with Linux. I've given up on the internal modem (I'm 90% sure it's some kind of software modem, and I have an external anyway), but I'm trying to