From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Broken nforce3 support in ALSA on amd64? Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:06:05 -0500 Message-ID: <1110225967.935.12.camel@mindpipe> References: <1109468746.11523.20.camel@colgate3.iforde.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Ian Forde , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 14:31 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Unfortunately, the datasheet of nforce is not available at all, so we > have no chance to fix this problem yet unless you do some reverse > engineering (but I never recommend to do that, it's a waste of time). Do you mean reverse engineering Nvidia drivers, or RE in general? If it's the latter I have to disagree strongly. It't not fast or easy, but many ALSA drivers have gained useful features this way. I strongly encourage reverse engineering proprietary drivers. Look at what James did with the Audigy LS. And look how much is known about the EMU DSP instruction set, all that info is reverse engineered. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click