From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 12:12:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 D272A16A401 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:12:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ladischc@informatik.uni-halle.de) Received: from mailgate2.urz.uni-halle.de (mailgate2.urz.uni-halle.de [141.48.3.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B7943D6B for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:12:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ladischc@informatik.uni-halle.de) Received: from mserv1.urz.uni-halle.de ([141.48.3.145] helo=mserv1) by mailgate2.urz.uni-halle.de with esmtp (Exim 4.62) id 1Fupwe-00057r-Hy ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:12:00 +0200 Received: from conversion-daemon.mail.uni-halle.de by mail.uni-halle.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) id <0J1G00I01TZU6B@mail.uni-halle.de> (original mail from ladischc@informatik.uni-halle.de); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:10:30 +0200 (MEST) Received: from turing.informatik.uni-halle.de (turing.informatik.Uni-Halle.DE [141.48.9.50]) by mail.uni-halle.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J1G00EAQV30LY@mail.uni-halle.de>; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:09:00 +0200 (MEST) Received: from turing.informatik.uni-halle.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.informatik.uni-halle.de (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k5QC903A022047; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:09:00 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from ladischc@localhost) by turing.informatik.uni-halle.de (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10/Submit) id k5QC8tMT022046; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:08:55 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:08:55 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch In-reply-to: <20060623191651.GA32728@night.db.net> To: Diane Bruce Message-id: <20060626120855.GB21613@turing.informatik.uni-halle.de> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <20060623191651.GA32728@night.db.net> X-Scan-Signature: 6cb34d70a4ee32cac1889b569d577157 Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ALSA shim 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: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:12:02 -0000 Diane Bruce wrote: > As part of the bsd hamradio cabal, we are looking at soundcard modem support. > It seems the best ones use ALSA natively. Has anyone been working on a > ALSA to OSS shim? The alsa-plugins package includes a plugin that makes OSS PCM and mixer devices available as ALSA devices. Making alsa-lib and alsa-plugins compile on BSD shouldn't be too big a problem (although I'm not aware of anybody ever trying). > I'd really prefer to do a BSDL shim. The ALSA library and the OSS plugin are LGPL. HTH Clemens