From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 22 5:51:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9768A37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 05:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from dsl093-019-250.msp1.dsl.speakeasy.net (dsl093-019-250.msp1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.19.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6550343F3F for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 05:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@jocose.org) Received: (qmail 24185 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2003 13:51:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jocose.org) (10.0.0.198) by 0 with SMTP; 22 Mar 2003 13:51:47 -0000 Message-ID: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:52:13 -0600 From: Peter Schultz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030226 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: der_julian@web.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Need ALSA [was: Re: MIDI on SB Live! ?] References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG der_julian@web.de wrote: > Hello, > > just out of curiosity: Is someone working in MIDI support for Creative EMU10K1 > based sound cards (aka Soundblaster Live!) ? > > Regards, > Julian Stecklina > Having a port of ALSA would sure round out 5.2 nicely, and would get you MIDI support: http://www.alsa-project.org/ This can easily happen if we get behind a developer. ALSA has been sponsored by SuSE for the benefit of Linux, and there's no reason we can't pull together our resources to do the same for our OS. I'm sure someone will step forward to do the port if we have the cash for them to comfortably sit in front of their computer until the port is complete. I'd certainly be more than willing to throw some money into a paypal account or whatever, and I think there are others who would too. OSS is so 20th century, lets get FreeBSD into 21st century sound architecture design. :-) If you're a developer seriously interested in this, lets talk. So much of FreeBSD development is sponsored by Universities and whatnot that we take it for granted. When stuff like ALSA doesn't get ported right away, I feel we need to realize our responsibility to contribute to the project as well. Sincerely, Pete... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message