From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 22 6:35:35 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 0344837B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com (mailout07.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9B043FAF for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:35:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blitz@jmmr.no-ip.com) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18wk5r-0005Th-01; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:35:31 +0100 Received: from jmmr.no-ip.com (520088592922-0001@[217.85.102.185]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18wk5f-1gFSZEC; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:35:19 +0100 Received: from jmmr.no-ip.com (blitz@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jmmr.no-ip.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2MEXqQI088444 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:34:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from blitz@jmmr.no-ip.com) Received: (from blitz@localhost) by jmmr.no-ip.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2MEXi9O087596 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:33:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from blitz) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> 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! ?] X-Sender: 520088592922-0001@t-dialin.net 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 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