<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Random Notes</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Via 686 Audio Driver for Linux" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Thanks" HREF="c62.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Driver ChangeLog" HREF="c82.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Via 686 Audio Driver for Linux</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c62.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c82.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="NOTES" ></A >Random Notes</H1 ><P > Two /proc pseudo-files provide diagnostic information. This is generally not useful to most users. Power users can disable CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX_PROCFS, and remove the /proc support code. Once version 2.0.0 is released, the /proc support code will be disabled by default. Available /proc pseudo-files: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > /proc/driver/via/0/info /proc/driver/via/0/ac97 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > This driver by default supports all PCI audio devices which report a vendor id of 0x1106, and a device id of 0x3058. Subsystem vendor and device ids are not examined. </P ><P > GNU indent formatting options: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >-kr -i8 -ts8 -br -ce -bap -sob -l80 -pcs -cs -ss -bs -di1 -nbc -lp -psl </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > Via has graciously donated e-mail support and source code to help further the development of this driver. Their assistance has been invaluable in the design and coding of the next major version of this driver. </P ><P > The Via audio chip apparently provides a second PCM scatter-gather DMA channel just for FM data, but does not have a full hardware MIDI processor. I haven't put much thought towards a solution here, but it might involve using SoftOSS midi wave table, or simply disabling MIDI support altogether and using the FM PCM channel as a second (input? output?) </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c62.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c82.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Thanks</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Driver ChangeLog</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
