Maestro-3 driver

Forum thread started by TekMate on Wed, 2004-07-28 23:42

http://www.fat-rat.com/projects/BeOS/Maestro3/

I would love to see someone resume work on this driver. I downloaded it but was unable to get it to work on an n400c.

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Maestro-3 driver

by myob - 2004-07-29 00:13

Theres a couple of problems with the ESS Maestro/Allegro/Canyon 3D family of cards.

The first one is the complete lack of specs. ESS did a driver for FreeBSD, but it used a hackjob to get at the DSP, and not into it.

All drivers for all OS's except Windows for this card use a nasty hackjob to get at the DSP, as ESS won't let you know how the DSP works. Its annoying.

Theres also the serious problem that its *nothing* like other ESS cards, which do have BeOS drivers, all opensource. So theres nothing to base work off that already does something similar

I've got a HP Omnibook 6000 with the same card, but the screen hinge is busted so I can't do any work on it.

Re: Maestro-3 driver

by hramat - 2010-08-31 13:44

Does anybody knows if ESS Maestro-3 works under Haiku. Seems like there has been no updates since 2004 however it is nicely working under linux. This is the only information I could find to the compaq n400c which I would like to use with haiku.

Re: Maestro-3 driver

by hramat - 2010-08-31 18:30

seems like maestro 3 should be working - according to Ticket #3490