From: Sophie (s-lauriebigpond.net.au)
Date: Sat Oct 08 2005 - 07:53:05 CDT

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Thanks for the response Jonathan,

Not questioning you. Just asking for enlightenment!

If ATI don't release information about their hardware
designs, then how did the OpenBSD developers
get the info needed to write the driver for my
dreadfully incompatible ATI IXP soundcard in this
system (sound works under 3.8 snapshots)?

Regards,
Soph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Gray" <jsggoblin.cx>
To: "Sophie" <s-lauriebigpond.net.au>
Cc: "Chris Kuethe" <chris.kuethegmail.com>; <miscopenbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: "ATI SB200 USB" ports on Toshiba Satellite

> On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 05:38:10PM +1000, Sophie wrote:
>> Hi Chris and thanks for the reply.
>>
>> I know that if it's not loudly announced here there's
>> a good chance it won't be looked at but my soundcard
>> was in the same boat as the USB (It's an ATI
>> IXP200 - also an uncommon beast - now works under
>> 3.8 using the auixp driver). I never saw anything
>> mentioned about my difficult soundcard in misc or
>> anywhere else for that matter and yet 3.8 supports
>> it (there are still Linux distros out there that don't).
>>
>> I don't care about anything else other than the USB ports.
>> REALLY: This is making life unbearable.
>> I can't use a USB mouse and I have no serial ports.
>> I have no mouse (the touchpad doesn't work properly).
>> I can't use any USB devices at all (but the mouse is all
>> that matters to me). I'm desperate. I LOVE OpenBSD
>> and have been a follower for many years now but this is
>> making the OpenBSD experience extremely extremely painful
>> and almost impossible to use whether in X or console.
>>
>> I realize they can only do what they can do and if it's
>> unfixable, then I won't know what to do then, but for
>> the last year and a half, I've waited to see if the new release
>> will fix it and I don't know how many CD's I've wasted
>> trying the 3.8 snapshots ever time they're updated, to
>> no avail.
>>
>> Please help me.
>>
>> SophieL
>
> ATI do not make public the relevant information required
> to make this work.

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