Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:44:29 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org>, der_julian@web.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need ALSA [was: Re: MIDI on SB Live! ?] Message-ID: <200303221544.33648.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> References: <XFMail.20030321210130.der_julian@web.de> <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Saturday 22 March 2003 14:52, Peter Schultz wrote: > 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/ I think you wouldn't really do anyone a favour, including the ALSA folks, if you went and made a port right now. The ALSA project is still not at 1.00 status and still quite in-flux. > 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 appreciate sponsoring somebody to work on our existing newpcm stuff and add the missing bits and pieces much more. Donating hardware (soundcards and MIDI-devices) would probably help very much already. -- Regards, Michael Nottebrock [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+fHbRXhc68WspdLARAoxIAJoCOIXFOKDoC1q/rpUd2jhmAk1PQwCeOCh9 hKOiRkzgMB++eAmd9AaYdGg= =cpXj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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