Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:53:46 -0500 From: Harry Coin <harrycoin@qconline.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quality soundcard Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20050826084734.01f78508@mail.qconline.com> In-Reply-To: <20050826120035.6FADB16A438@hub.freebsd.org>
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> >Message: 11 >Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:47:03 -0400 >From: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> >Subject: Re: quality soundcard >Thus spake Michael Nottebrock (lofi@freebsd.org) [26/08/05 01:49]: >: > That being said, I'd really like to get native drivers for it. So I'll >: > prod again: is there anyone I can speak to about getting these drivers >: > written? >: >: I still keep http://people.freebsd.org/~lofi/envy24.tar.gz (unfinished, >: non-working driver, not by me) and >http://people.freebsd.org/~lofi/envy24.pdf >: around, in case someone wants to take that driver and finish it. In it's >: current form, it doesn't even compile, but the fixes to make it compile are >: rather trivial. The fixes necessary to make it *work* however are not >and way >: over my head. > >And on top of that, I do have more documents at my disposal that should make >writing a driver fairly easy, for someone who knows how. > >But, like Michael, the work necessary is way over my head. I added 'sound engineer' level support for a popular older chip (complete with amp analog and digital db references, total access to all signal paths on the chip, etc.) a while ago and contributed it, but as I haven't heard anything more about it (and I don't see it as part of the system now) either I screwed up some royal way I am unaware of, or sound and video support really just are not a priority for freebsd-niks. I even wrote a man page for it. Now, I'm new to all this *nix world and though I've spent a career writing drivers for fussy chips it's my first go at freebsd, so maybe I have violated some technical or social rule I just didn't know about and that's why things are as they are. But, if the traffic on list multi-media list is any indication, over against the traffic on other lists, multimedia on freebsd seems a bit of a lower-interest arena. Harry
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