Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:35:31 +0100 From: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> To: Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org> Cc: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>, der_julian@web.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need ALSA [was: Re: MIDI on SB Live! ?] Message-ID: <3E7C9EE3.4020406@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <3E7C7E2C.9080304@jocose.org> References: <XFMail.20030321210130.der_julian@web.de> <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> <200303221544.33648.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <3E7C7E2C.9080304@jocose.org>
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Peter Schultz wrote: > Michael Nottebrock wrote: > >> On Saturday 22 March 2003 14:52, Peter Schultz wrote: >> >>> der_julian@web.de wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> just out of curiosity: Is someone working in MIDI support for Creative >>>> EMU10K1 based sound cards (aka Soundblaster Live!) ? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Julian Stecklina >>> >>> >>> Having a port of ALSA would sure round out 5.2 nicely, and would get you >>> MIDI support: http://www.alsa-project.org/ >> >> >> >> I think you wouldn't really do anyone a favour, including the ALSA >> folks, if you went and made a port right now. The ALSA project is >> still not at 1.00 status and still quite in-flux. >> > One could go either way with this. Leave it for after 1.0, or grab it > now and help build it up for a better 2.0. Or I guess we could initiate > the ABSDSA and have support for both ALSA and OSS. Wouldn't this be > even more work though? > >> >>> This can easily happen if we get behind a developer. ALSA has been >>> sponsored by SuSE for the benefit of Linux, and there's no reason we >>> can't pull together our resources to do the same for our OS. I'm sure >>> someone will step forward to do the port if we have the cash for them to >>> comfortably sit in front of their computer until the port is complete. >> >> >> >> I'd appreciate sponsoring somebody to work on our existing newpcm >> stuff and add the missing bits and pieces much more. Donating hardware >> (soundcards and MIDI-devices) would probably help very much already. >> > OSS is on the outs. New applications that are ALSA only will soon be > common, won't they? Alsa is condemned to driver + some silly user space daemon with naive signal filter anyway. So no problem here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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