Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:33:42 +0100 (CET) From: der_julian@web.de To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Need ALSA [was: Re: MIDI on SB Live! ?] Message-ID: <XFMail.20030322153342.der_julian@web.de> In-Reply-To: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org>
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Hello, > Having a port of ALSA would sure round out 5.2 nicely, and would get you > MIDI support: http://www.alsa-project.org/ Quote from this page: "Known bugs - MIDI on SB live drive not working properly." Seems MIDI is not a great priority anymore. But I would certainly greet a new sound architecture. Broken MIDI is at least better than no MIDI. ;) [porting] > 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. :-) I would have no objections. > 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. Uh... Ok, I have C experience, but my insight into FreeBSD and sound card programming (I remember some experiments with soundblasters in DOS times) is quite limited. Regards, Julian Stecklina To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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