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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:26:21 -0400
From:      dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox)
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rvplayer requires pcm for stable
Message-ID:  <19981012042621.B1296@scsn.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810120541.GAA19591@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:41:50AM %2B0100
References:  <199810120454.VAA02154@board66.cruzers.com> <199810120541.GAA19591@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > For the record, the linux rvplayer v5 only works if you have the pcm
> > sound driver (instead of voxware) installed.
> > 
> > I couldn't get rvplayer to work with voxware and a ktrace showed that
> > it was failing on an ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_GETCAPS call.  Donald Maddox
> > found that this ioctl is missing from the voxware code in -stable, but
> > is present in the pcm code.  3.0 does not have this problem.
> 
> the voxware driver is essentially unmaintained, unless we can find a
> volunteer (which i am not)...

It may be 'unmaintained', but it works perfectly in -current, even for
rvplayer, and it supports MIDI :-)  I hope very much that some multimedia
guru will pick up support of the Voxware driver, or add MIDI support to
pcm...  (I'm not a multimedia guru, before you suggest it :-) )


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