From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Sep 3 17:15: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (ferg5200-1-27.cpinternet.com [208.149.16.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF4714BD4 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 17:14:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA07898; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:14:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from alk) From: Anthony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:14:49 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: anthony.kimball@east.sun.com To: gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resetting dsp parameters References: <14282.4551.568237.302494@avalon.east> <19990831225727.61666@hydrogen.fircrest.net> <003901bef660$1de20e80$0304020a@rings> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14288.23941.80390.569738@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Cameron Grant on Sat, 4 September: : > Anthony Kimball scribbled this message on Aug 30: : > > One complaint I have with the current sound driver interface is : > > that dsp parameters (n channels, sample size, sample rate) are : > > reset to non-useful values every time I open the device. : : unfortunately, fixing this would break oss compatibility. Perhaps not *necessarily*: One could add sticky versions of the ioctls, which change the reset defaults. As long as you don't use the extended ioctls, the interface is no less compatible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message