From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Nov 6 1:52:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CD614CAE for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 01:52:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA33105; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 20:22:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3823143F.98DCEC2D@thebarn.com> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 20:21:39 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" To: Russell Cattelan Subject: Re: Creative seems to open up SB Live Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, Seigo Tanimura , Amancio Hasty , Alex , Randall Hopper , The Hermit Hacker Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 05-Nov-99 Russell Cattelan wrote: > I like that idea. > Does anybody know how to create a loadable sound driver? > I know the OSS drivers do it, so it is possible. It would be possible but given the kernel APIs are a moving target I suspect you'll spend a lot of time making sure it works.. The first order of the day would be changing the pcm driver so it can cope with dynamic registration of devices.. No idea how hard it would be though :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message