Re: Mostly-new vidcaudio(4) driver

Hi Ben,

Nice bit of work.

> After a couple of solid days' hacking, I seem to have got the vidcaudio(4)
> driver to work, both on a VIDC20 (8-bit, mu-law) and an ARM7500FE (16-bit,
> linear).  I don't know whether it's ever worked before, but there's
> certainly precious little of the old driver left.  The new version is in
> NetBSD-current, and people should test it.  Risc PCs with 16-bit sound
> aren't supported, largely because I haven't got one, so I don't know how
> to reliably detect the 16-bit sound hardware.

I believe the easiest method for detecting 16bit is to actually do what
RISC-OS does, which is rely on the user setting an entry in the CMOS
correctly.

I certainly can't imagine a vidc20 turning up in a non RISC-OS machine.

Chris