From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 7 14:22:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C127106564A for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 14:22:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raszobbi@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089158FC18 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 14:22:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raszobbi@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w1so253317mue.3 for ; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:22:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3e8kHkcXV5nYMeGRTLTZ8mRCt+uMx/dEgpnVn92ie28=; b=hza+KCgv/2Exmtn6GJijF8DPLRFt1Z3AMlkZnHUOOTOFSCtbg+kaHz9HkCGMT+bTw5 pyClzhUcDIm7V3OuVWmQeD3Sj8TJU6vJllWHe8J2g0WW1OecnqsS6yPmrR6DByzaO9mJ /WgZmAgD2HE85OwwxKW7/R+k6taRYkGOnHgdI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MYMy/tId4N+QDZLdGK1MgFYA2zQyf0NxUe75YGUdULo6y0jlXhK3h/Y3jO0dluuS9U 3unDkRO6DbakF4dZHYLNgyuhuqHAGOEo9H8udyZYUTvgA5AinWBZS9mcGMVnwlv9LEXp aA3qOgk0R2IgrSg0Gl9U4DkACc4B/NrFwNaYY= Received: by 10.103.245.18 with SMTP id x18mr1583420mur.62.1236434395682; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:59:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ilras.barsh.com ([92.251.20.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm3571257muo.50.2009.03.07.05.59.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:59:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49B28BE9.4070302@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:59:53 +0000 From: rasz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: freebsd sound system X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:22:11 -0000 hi, i have a a couple of general questions with regards to freebsd sound and midi but i am not sure what kind of development is underway that might make this sort of redundunt. anyhow, i am only just starting to get a bit into programming and understanding different areas of freebsd when i have the time; and the only thing i am really missing in freebsd is midi ; but hopefully that will come about. besides that, i have run into a couple of issues which concern alsa, particularly with two applications so far. one was a linux binary (renoise) which complained about missing files/libs on first run, but got past that after i installed the alsa libs port (it failed on something else after, but that's another story). the other program was rosegarden which i downloaded as source and tried to build following the included instructions, however it does some checks to see if alsa (or what version) is installed. so after first fail, i commented out that part from the makefile to see what happens, which only produced a fail later on. so for the long run, my real question is this; would it be possible, and how easy is it, to have some kind of dummy alsa package installed? or is that a bad idea? it wouldn't need to be functional, just present for any application that requires it to build or install, since eventually it seems that these apps can use jack in any case, which in turn would be using whatever is actually available. on another note, does anyone know how old or active the info on the following site is? http://wiki.freebsd.org/soundsystem rgds