From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Oct 15 06:37:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21399 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 06:37:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21375; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 06:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA01239; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:34:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) 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: Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:34:07 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Trash Voxware? (was Re: rvplayer requires pcm for stable) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I really must add my $.02 here. I would really hate to see the Voxware code dropped, as I need it to take full advantage of my AWE 64. The awedrv package (available from Randall Hopper's site at http://multiverse.com/~rhh/awedrv) depends on the Voxware code, as it is essentially nothing but a number of patches to same. I can't see giving up a driver that gives me *full* access to all of my soundcard's capabilities for one that provides only limited functionality. IF the pcm driver supported MIDI/synth, I might feel differently (probably not, actually, since I doubt it would ever support the AWE as well as awedrv), but I feel this decision to toss the Voxware code is *way* premature. I really don't understand the eagerness to drop Voxware at this point in time. Is it simply for the lack of maintainer? -- Conrad Sabatier A billion here, a couple of billion there -- first thing you know it adds up to be real money. -- Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message