From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 27 10:31:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F5616A41F for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:31:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 841D543D46 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:30:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5F526.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.245.38]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7RAMOfn082874; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:22:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7RATjk9045604; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:29:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:29:45 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Damian Gerow Message-ID: <20050827122945.5574328d@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050827003806.GI52270@afflictions.org> References: <20050826120035.6FADB16A438@hub.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20050826084734.01f78508@mail.qconline.com> <20050826161527.15f48542@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050827003806.GI52270@afflictions.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quality soundcard X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:31:01 -0000 On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:38:07 -0400 Damian Gerow wrote: > Thus spake Alexander Leidinger (Alexander@Leidinger.net) [26/08/05 10:22]: > : > But, if the traffic on list multi-media list is any indication, over > : > against the traffic on other lists, multimedia on freebsd seems a bit of a > : > lower-interest arena. > : > : At least not much committers want to make their fingers dirty in the > : sound code... or they don't have the time to do it. > > Could said committers point to a few places a relatively new C coder could > use to learn to write drivers? I'd have no problem getting my fingers > dirty, but the few times I've tried to do so, I was thwarted by not > understanding much of anything. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/oss.html but don't be surprised if it doesn't explain the current way of writting a sound driver. If you find something wrong, please report it here and/or in our PR database. Much better would be a patch which corrects the error, but just a report about outdated content is better than not knowing about the problem at all. Bye, Alexander. -- The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7