From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 19 21:27:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA8437B401 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic-mail.adaptec.com [208.236.45.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C508943FA3 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3K4O5Z18123; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:24:05 -0700 Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com ([10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18895; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:26:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08420; Sat, 19 Apr 2003 22:26:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3EA2215E.9030001@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 22:26:06 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dillon References: <200304191454.h3JEs8X3074893@forte.heathen.com> <200304191606.39781.mistry.7@osu.edu> <20030419223545.F60765@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <20030419223545.F60765@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Create Extigy X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 04:27:07 -0000 Chris Dillon wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Anish Mistry wrote: > > >>From my communications with Hercules and Cirrus Logic (chipset) they >>have not been helpful in providing specs. Cirrus Logic has provided >>specs to opensound.com (non-free) and alsa (linux/GPL) and feel >>that's enough for them. A quote from thier reply "The only >>information that has been made available is accessible through the >>linux community." So I wouldn't count on buying a Hercules card >>unless you can convince them to release specs, or even write the >>driver themselves. > > > It seems that is the unfortunate state of affairs with most of the > industry. Has anybody managed to get any more information out of > Creative compared to Cirrus Logic? If not, I would have to base my > decision on how well the stuff works in Windows. As long as I can get > basic sound out of it in FreeBSD I'm happy, I don't mind if all of the > features don't work. > > Part of the apathy that companies show towards BSD is due to there not being a legal corporate entity to sign an NDA. It's a much less risky proposition to enforce an NDA against RedHat than it is to enforce one against Some Random Hacker. It might be worthwhile to see if the FreeBSD Foundation is interested in helping fill this role. Scott