Subject: Re: 8-bit vs. 16-bit sound...
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/02/2000 16:18:18
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 01:04:54PM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> ESS's online documentation is sadly inadequate these days. The "data
> sheets" they have avaliable are mostly two-to-four-page blurbs without
> programming information.
> 
> That said, it's probably a 1688 deriviatve (though there's nothing on
> the site that actualy says 1681), and if you can fight your way
> through their voice mail tree, they've ben quite willing to ship
> programming information on paper. Our driver should be abusable into
> driving a 1688-era chip.

Lennart pointed me at this the other day:

ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/manuals/
ad              ensoniq         opti            trident
asahi_kasei     ess             panasonic       via
cirrus          forte_media     rme             wolfson
cmi             general         s3              yamaha
creative        icensemble      sek             za
dolby           intel           sigmatel

in ess:
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       390075 Jul 20  1999 688.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1387020 Jul 20  1999 DS1868B.PDF
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1294876 Jul 20  1999 DS1869.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1799470 Jul 20  1999 DS1878A.PDF
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       453684 Jul 20  1999 DSMaestro2.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1846013 Jul 20  1999 DS_1946.PDF
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       795385 Jul 20  1999 DsSolo1.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       209065 Jul 20  1999 PB1688B.PDF
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1089065 Jul 20  1999 ds1879a.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       521129 Jul 20  1999 maestro.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       100854 Jul 20  1999 pb1868c.pdf

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