Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:14:02 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: rasz <raszobbi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd sound system Message-ID: <20090310091402.13413h62tf9n9s20@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <49B28BE9.4070302@gmail.com> References: <49B28BE9.4070302@gmail.com>
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Quoting rasz <raszobbi@gmail.com> (from Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:59:53 +0000): > besides that, i have run into a couple of issues which concern alsa, =20 > particularly with two applications so far. > one was a linux binary (renoise) which complained about missing =20 > 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 =20 > another story). > > the other program was rosegarden which i downloaded as source and =20 > tried to build following the included instructions, > however it does some checks to see if alsa (or what version) is =20 > installed. so after first fail, i commented out that part from the =20 > 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, =20 > and how easy is it, to have some kind of dummy alsa package =20 > installed? or is that a bad idea? it wouldn't need to be functional, There's an ALSA -> OSS wrapper from 4Front, but AFAIK it is not =20 maintained (and not in the ports collection, as nobody took the time =20 to add necessary stuff to our OSS implementation). > just present for any application that requires it to build or =20 > install, since eventually it seems that these apps can use jack in =20 > any case, which in turn would be using whatever is actually available. I think this would not be good, as an application would assume ALSA =20 works if it is present, and an user (specially those switching from =20 linux) may be very confused too, if it is present but does not work. > on another note, does anyone know how old or active the info on the =20 > following site is? http://wiki.freebsd.org/soundsystem There's not much activity. For MIDI everything is correct. For HDA, =20 there may be some changes needed (it has seen a lot of development =20 recently). For the rest it should at least be 99% correct. Bye, Alexander. --=20 =09 THE DAILY PLANET =09SUPERMAN SAVES DESSERT! =09Plans to "Eat it later" http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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