Re: Mostly-new vidcaudio(4) driver

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 [email protected] wrote:

> > 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.

Do we currently have a utility in NetBSD that is able to read/write CMOS
locations from userland?

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