Christopher P. Gill wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> > >There is one Nubus card in it - a PAS16 sound card, which I wasn't
> > >planning to use with NetBSD - I >wonder if that could be giving trouble? I
> > >will take it out & see...
> > 
> > No, that wasn't it - removing it had no effect.
> 
> I have one of those things in my Quadra 800, and it hasn't caused any
> problems with NetBSD.  It would be nice if there were some kind of support
> for the thing, but I suspect that I'd have to do it myself - and I don't
> have the skills.  I have negligible Mac coding experience, and less doing
> hardware interfacing. 
> 
> Of course, the card had some timing problems with certain Mac hardware
> (including mine), and the MIDI ports never did work right.  I wasn't happy
> using the card as the output device for internal audio - it was better to
> plug the audio out of the machine into one of the card's stereo inputs
> instead of going through the bus.
> 
> Anyone think they'll be playing with this anytime?

This is a Pro Audio Spectrum 16, right?  I assume that it's similar to the
ISA-based PC cards?  If so, we already have an ISA-based pas driver in the
tree.  If they are similar enough, it might not be too hard to figure out
how to hook up a nubus-specific frontend and use the pre-existing backend.
Actually hooking in the MI audio driver isn't too difficult.  I've finally
got it working with EASC hardware (well, we do 22kHZ 8-bit u-law and 8-bit
linear at the moment, but i do get recognizable sound out of it :-)  If
you're interested in learning programming and stuff, this might be just
the project to get you started :-)

Later.

Colin