Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:22:23 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: "Cameron Grant" <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk> Cc: "Christopher Masto" <chris@netmonger.net>, "Andre Albsmeier" <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, cshenton@uucom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R pcm/sbc AWE records noise, not audio: 16 bit bug?; gus broken? Message-ID: <80325.981145343@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Cameron Grant" <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk> of "Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:19:31 GMT." <003f01c08d12$657a5e60$0504020a@haveblue>
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> before badmouthing my efforts, please be aware that the sound system is a > lot of code for one person to maintain and develop. i have limited time and > energy, and i'm not in possession of every soundcard known to man. as such, > my priorities are: Let me just add mine to the voices who STRONGLY SUPPORT the work that Cameron has been doing for quite some time now and note that before he came along, audio support was something that everybody complained about but almost nobody actually DID anything to improve. Sure, some folks like Soren (thank you) did what they could with the old VOXWARE code but nobody attempted anything like the wholesale cleanup and merging work that Cameron did and sound support is today far, far better than it ever was. He deserves profuse thanks, not insults. Let it also be said that anyone who dismisses any part of FreeBSD as "sad" (or uses words to the same effect) needs to also express such sentiments as part of a proposed fix, e.g. "the foobar code in FreeBSD is really sad, the attached diff contains my proposed fix" or they're not helping things at all. To slam something without proposing a constructive solution in a volunteer project like FreeBSD (or any volunteer project) is totally counter-productive since it only serves to demotivate people from fixing it. Slamming it as a part of your argument for why your much better version should be used instead, on the other hand, is another matter. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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