From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 12 01:26:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA24762 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24753; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:26:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmaddox@scsn.net) Received: from rhiannon.scsn.net ([209.12.57.81]) by mail.scsn.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-41950U6000L1100S0) with ESMTP id AAA221; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:17:25 -0400 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by rhiannon.scsn.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id EAA01345; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:26:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dmaddox) Message-ID: <19981012042621.B1296@scsn.net> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:26:21 -0400 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: Luigi Rizzo , David Kulp Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rvplayer requires pcm for stable Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net References: <199810120454.VAA02154@board66.cruzers.com> <199810120541.GAA19591@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199810120541.GAA19591@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:41:50AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > For the record, the linux rvplayer v5 only works if you have the pcm > > sound driver (instead of voxware) installed. > > > > I couldn't get rvplayer to work with voxware and a ktrace showed that > > it was failing on an ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_GETCAPS call. Donald Maddox > > found that this ioctl is missing from the voxware code in -stable, but > > is present in the pcm code. 3.0 does not have this problem. > > the voxware driver is essentially unmaintained, unless we can find a > volunteer (which i am not)... It may be 'unmaintained', but it works perfectly in -current, even for rvplayer, and it supports MIDI :-) I hope very much that some multimedia guru will pick up support of the Voxware driver, or add MIDI support to pcm... (I'm not a multimedia guru, before you suggest it :-) ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message