From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 22 9:34:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FB837B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 09:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4D3C43FBD for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 09:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdcki@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 6997 invoked by uid 0); 22 Mar 2003 17:34:43 -0000 Received: from Bc1a8.pppool.de (HELO gmx.net) (213.7.193.168) by mail.gmx.net (mp023-rz3) with SMTP; 22 Mar 2003 17:34:43 -0000 Message-ID: <3E7C9EE3.4020406@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:35:31 +0100 From: Marcin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030219 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pl, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Schultz Cc: Michael Nottebrock , der_julian@web.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need ALSA [was: Re: MIDI on SB Live! ?] References: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> <200303221544.33648.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <3E7C7E2C.9080304@jocose.org> In-Reply-To: <3E7C7E2C.9080304@jocose.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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