Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:26:09 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status and future of sound drivers ? Message-ID: <12983.861488769@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:17:55 PDT." <199704192217.PAA04562@rah.star-gate.com>
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> Yes, contacting Hannu with respect to OSS is a good idea . It provides > feedback and for sure it will motivate him and his crew to further > do more work for FreeBSD. The other thing that we can do is ask him > how can we help? Since I talk to these guys (Dev and Hannu) a fair bit, and in significant detail, perhaps I can help clarify their current position: 1. They wish to focus purely on the commercial product for now, and any pushing on the "free" side of their product line isn't really going to net good results (I've already tried and been told that it's in the works but NOT for at least 6 months and this time- table is very firm). Given that the commercial product is only $20, I don't see this as a hugely big deal (and you get free lifetime updates - such a deal!). 2. What Hannu needs right now more than anything (and he's asked directly in -hackers) is for people to help him test the current OSS demo which I stuck in 2.2.1's commerce distribution. It has been hanging a few core folk machines, but apparently all most of us have time to say is "it crashes my machine!" and Hannu is sort of frustrated at the lack of reproducible details. ;-) 3. If we want to continue to improve the current driver, and I've talked with the 4front folks about our short-term needs, all they ask is that we stay API compatible. Again, the web page at http://www.4front-tech.com/pguide/sndcrd.html contains all the relevant details and should be a good reference. Jordan
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