Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:07:03 -0400 From: exidor@superior.net (Christopher Masto) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status and future of sound drivers ? Message-ID: <19970421150703.CO57057@@> In-Reply-To: <3799.861465849@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Apr 19, 1997 09:04:09 -0700 References: <199704191543.RAA01285@ocean.campus.luth.se> <3799.861465849@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > Wouldn't it be better to eesign the Ultimate Sound API (or use the NetBSD one
>
> I think the Open Sound Source people still have the best shot at
> creating a unified sound standard, and having already signed up the
> likes of SCO and Linux makes them pretty compelling. I've also talked
> with Dev of 4 Front Technologies, and he says that anyone is free to
> grab and incorporate the OSS header files verbatim if they're looking
> for an API target for some free version of the sound drivers.
That would be nice if OSS worked. Unfortunately, on my home machine
it kernel panics when I touch MIDI, and is broken up and stuttery when
using /dev/audio. At work it just crashes on install.
Of course, that isn't as relevant to the discussion of using their
free API. The problem is that a lot of people seem to feel like
nobody should bother working on the sound support, singe there are
these OSS people who will come down from above and save us. I don't
see that happening.
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