Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:15:49 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Cameron Grant" <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>, "Christopher Masto" <chris@netmonger.net>, "Andre Albsmeier" <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, <cshenton@uucom.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 4.2R pcm/sbc AWE records noise, not audio: 16 bit bug?; gus broken? Message-ID: <003101c08d3b$c9eb45c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <003f01c08d12$657a5e60$0504020a@haveblue>
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Hi Cameron, Please don't get bothered by idiotic comments like that. There are people in the world that you can give everything to, hell go set up the PC for them, and they are still going to be complaining. Besides that, people love complaining about the things they like - if this guy really and truly thought that the sound support sucked he wouldn't be using FreeBSD at all. His problem is that he just likes complaining. Sure, everyone has their favorite piece of hardware that isn't completely supported. Me, I'm still concerned that support for some of the older SCSI adapters was killed when we switched to CAM. But, I trust the tradeoffs that developers make. I know that the reason that support for my junky card isn't in there is because some developer somewhere made the decision that it's not as important as something else. Instead of complaining I can add the support myself or buy another card. For every one person out there complaining there are thousands, such as myself, who are perfectly satisfied with the sound support in FreeBSD, and are very grateful that people like you have spent your time to put it in. Our biggest failing is that we don't let you guys know this often enough! View comments like his as a compliment - he obviously has come to use FreeBSD so much that he considers it no different than "commercial" software, of which people take complaining about to a high art form. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Cameron Grant > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:20 AM > To: Christopher Masto; Andre Albsmeier; cshenton@uucom.com > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG; multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: 4.2R pcm/sbc AWE records noise, not audio: 16 bit bug?; gus > broken? > > > > I doubt it. It's been broken for years, and I have no expectation of > > it ever being fixed. FreeBSD sound support is really sad. > > before badmouthing my efforts, please be aware that the sound system is a > lot of code for one person to maintain and develop. i have > limited time and > energy, and i'm not in possession of every soundcard known to > man. as such, > my priorities are: > > 1) i have no time to support hardware that i do not have. if you want a > card supported, submit a working and tested driver, or send me a card and > wait. > > 2) supporting legacy hardware is lower priority than more recent hardware. > > 3) -current support will always be far better than -stable. > > 4) the old pcm api is deprecated since it doesn't buy us much, is barely > used and there is no documentation other than code. > > to be quite honest, i've done very little but sound stuff for the last > decade, and attitudes like yours only contribute to my feelings of > dissatisfaction with it. i feel honour-boud to finish what i started, and > probably will, but you should remember that i'm not being paid > for this, so > i don't feel that you are in a position to make statements like those. do > feel free to take the torch, i've been wanting to pass it on for a while > now. > > -cg > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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