From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 22 7:15:34 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 DDEEA37B404 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:15:32 -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 E840E43FBF for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@jocose.org) Received: (qmail 24344 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2003 15:15:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jocose.org) (10.0.0.198) by 0 with SMTP; 22 Mar 2003 15:15:31 -0000 Message-ID: <3E7C7E2C.9080304@jocose.org> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 09:15:56 -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: Michael Nottebrock Cc: der_julian@web.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need ALSA [was: Re: MIDI on SB Live! ?] References: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> <200303221544.33648.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200303221544.33648.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> 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 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > 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. > One could go either way with this. Leave it for after 1.0, or grab it now and help build it up for a better 2.0. Or I guess we could initiate the ABSDSA and have support for both ALSA and OSS. Wouldn't this be even more work though? > >>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. > OSS is on the outs. New applications that are ALSA only will soon be common, won't they? Newpcm is what, five years old? Whatever it is, it ain't new anymore. Of course, maybe I'm completely mistaken about the whole situation and all newpcm needs is a boost. What is the right answer? Does OS X have a completely proprietary sound arch? It would be nice to be able to work with what they've got too. Pete... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message