From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 16:27:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC2316A421 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:27:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outP.internet-mail-service.net (outP.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B94813C474 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:27:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:27:43 -0700 Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (home.elischer.org [216.240.48.38]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00111125A23; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46A4D713.3020408@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:28:03 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <20070722231730.717d5472@localhost> <20070723110009.w7szemgpsg80k804@webmail.leidinger.net> <46A4BA24.2070806@elischer.org> <20070723181011.383dcc1a@deskjail> In-Reply-To: <20070723181011.383dcc1a@deskjail> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Multimedia ML , Ariff Abdullah Subject: Re: FreeBSD's sound system lineage.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:27:43 -0000 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Julian Elischer (Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:24:36 -0700): > >> The OSS people have offered us the use (from memory) of their ALSA<->OSS >> shim library. It would be nice if one of the sound people >> would talk to them and see if the offer still stands. > > It needs kernel support which we don't have. I don't know how hard/easy > it is to provide this support. That's where we probably need someone like Ariff to have a look at it. I think they also offered to help us get that support. > > Bye, > Alexander. >