DriverPacks.net Forum - [IMPL] Open source (BSD) C-Media 8738/8768 WDM drivers

Re: [IMPL] Open source (BSD) C-Media 8738/8768 WDM drivers

null@example.com (forart.it) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:21:13 +0000

After some licensing discussion, drivers now included in ReactOS !!!

0.3.3 changelog -Audio Stack
* Port Class (PORTCLS): Minor adjustments so that this now compiles without error. A lot of work still needed (Andrew Greenwood)
* Kernel Streaming (KS): Again, minor adjustments to KS itself and its headers (Andrew Greenwood)
* Drivers: NT4 style drivers now deprecated, WDM-style drivers to be used instead (Andrew Greenwood)
Magnus Olsen has also imported some open-source C-Media WDM audio drivers (these do not compile for us yet)
* Legacy support: Removed WDMAUD.DRV (pending a rewrite) and also begun clean rewrite of MMDRV.DLL (Andrew Greenwood)

Maybe my "fault" ?

Re: [IMPL] Open source (BSD) C-Media 8738/8768 WDM drivers

null@example.com (JakeLD) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:56:31 +0000

I did integrate the driver in the test pack and did the necessary changes.

Test it and let me know, great suggestion btw thx again.

Re: [IMPL] Open source (BSD) C-Media 8738/8768 WDM drivers

null@example.com (forart.it) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:24:29 +0000

For those who are interested in, here's what the Echo Digital Audio Corporation' Software Developer Page claims:

Interested in writing your own driver for Echoâ€™s hardware? Then you need the generic driver code. This is the cross-platform C++ library used for our Windows and Mac PCI and Cardbus drivers.

Source code is provided under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

[IMPL] Open source (BSD) C-Media 8738/8768 WDM drivers

null@example.com (forart.it) — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:46:54 +0000

Just discovered this website:

http://cmediadrivers.googlepages.com/

This project aims at developing drivers for C-Media 8738 / 8768 based soundcards, focusing on providing a bloat-free, stable and reliable alternative to the official drivers in order to squeeze the most out of the hardware.
A PCI soundcard with a C-Media chip and Windows 2000/XP/Vista are required to run this driver. Due to arbitrary driver signing restrictions, the 64 bit version of Windows Vista is currently not supported although there's a workaround for installing and running the driver. However, they're fully compatible with the 64 bit version of XP and the 32 bit versions of every aforementioned OS.

I hope someone is interested in collaborating with the author to improve them...
I also hope it could be the 1st step to have more open source drivers here...
Last but not least check out my 3ad @ ROS forum

Hope that helps !