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Date:      Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:29:45 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: quality soundcard
Message-ID:  <20050827122945.5574328d@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050827003806.GI52270@afflictions.org>
References:  <20050826120035.6FADB16A438@hub.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20050826084734.01f78508@mail.qconline.com> <20050826161527.15f48542@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050827003806.GI52270@afflictions.org>

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:38:07 -0400
Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> wrote:

> Thus spake Alexander Leidinger (Alexander@Leidinger.net) [26/08/05 10:22]:
> : > 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.
> : 
> : At least not much committers want to make their fingers dirty in the
> : sound code... or they don't have the time to do it.
> 
> Could said committers point to a few places a relatively new C coder could
> use to learn to write drivers?  I'd have no problem getting my fingers
> dirty, but the few times I've tried to do so, I was thwarted by not
> understanding much of anything.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/oss.html
but don't be surprised if it doesn't explain the current way of
writting a sound driver.

If you find something wrong, please report it here and/or in our PR
database. Much better would be a patch which corrects the error, but
just a report about outdated content is better than not knowing about
the problem at all.

Bye,
Alexander.

-- 
     The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall.

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