On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:36:51PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:

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>  - first, envy24 is a generic digital only chip; it's connected to
>    up to 4 codecs that do the analog<->digital conversions and that
>    hold the gain knobs. So to add support for a new cards we must
>    add support for its codecs, and we need to know how these codecs
>    are wired to the envy24 chip, how gpio pins are used, etc... 
>    (this may require docs from the sound card manufacturer, not
>    via)

That's I was afraid of.

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> afaik, these cards are based on envy24ht, not envy24.

What do you think about (much cheaper) Chaintech AV-710? There's a version
with envy24... perhaps someone's using this under OpenBSD?

http://icrontic.com/articles/chaintech_av710_71_audio_card_review
http://techgage.com/article/chaintech_av-710_71_sound_card/
http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/articles/show/654
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