From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 14 10:08:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA04570 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 10:08:13 -0800 Received: from netcom7.netcom.com (hasty@netcom7.netcom.com [192.100.81.115]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA04564 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 10:08:12 -0800 From: hasty@netcom.com Received: from localhost by netcom7.netcom.com (8.6.9/Netcom) id KAA27967; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 10:00:13 -0800 Message-Id: <199502141800.KAA27967@netcom7.netcom.com> To: Jim Lowe cc: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, pst@cisco.com Subject: Re: GUS sound driver with vat support In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 14 Feb 95 08:04:04 -0600. <199502141404.IAA10856@miller.cs.uwm.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 10:00:04 -0800 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The vat driver that is include with FreeBSD-current is a real hack and > sound go away at some point. It really doesn't work very well. I should > have a cleaner solution to the problem in a few weeks -- unless you need > this stuff right away. Hmmm... Well, there are two ways of looking at this to come up with a better vat driver or to get rid of vat:) Given Van Jacobson reluctance to release the source, I think that is going to be easier to develop a sound tool which does not require the vat driver. Nevot I think is a good start and additioanlly we may be able to extend the sound functionality of nevot to use NAS. My 0.2 about the current VAT situation Amancio