From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jan 14 17:51:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA25596 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:51:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (daemon@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA25589 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA10091 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:51:50 +1000 Received: from pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au by ogre.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.7.5/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with ESMTP id LAA03305 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:14:13 +1000 (EST) Received: from netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au (netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au [167.123.24.12]) by pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA15356 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:07:25 +1000 Received: from localhost by netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.8.1/DEVETIR-0.1) id BAA20333 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:06:15 GMT Message-Id: <199701150106.BAA20333@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0beta 12/23/96 To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Status of sound drivers X-Face: 3}heU+2?b->-GSF-G4T4>jEB9~FR(V9lo&o>kAy=Pj&;oVOc<|pr%I/VSG"ZD32J>5gGC0N 7gj]^GI@M:LlqNd]|(2OxOxy@$6@/!,";-!OlucF^=jq8s57$%qXd/ieC8DhWmIy@J1AcnvSGV\|*! >Bvu7+0h4zCY^]{AxXKsDTlgA2m]fX$W@'8ev-Qi+-;%L'CcZ'NBL!@n?}q!M&Em3*eW7,093nOeV8 M)(u+6D;%B7j\XA/9j4!Gj~&jYzflG[#)E9sI&Xe9~y~Gn%fA7>F:YKr"Wx4cZU*6{^2ocZ!YyR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:06:14 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've received some info back from 4Front technologies (courtesy of their web page) in which they said the following - >Hi, > >Thanks for visiting our WWW site!. > >We are projecting a release of OSS/FreeBSD within 30 days of the official >release of FreeBSD 2.2. For about 6-9 months, OSS/FreeBSD is going to be >a commercial only sound driver for FreeBSD. After that, we'll give our >source code to the FreeBSD organization for free distribution with the >FreeBSD kernel sources. OSS/Free for FreeBSD will be similar to the Linux >kernel sound drivers (known as OSS/Free). We hope that both Linux and >FreeBSD can benefit from the OSS/Free drivers and help us make OSS a UNIX >standard. > I'd like some of the features which are not in our current sound driver, e.g. the ability to enquire of the card's capabilities (SNDCTL_DSP_GETCAPS) and the ability to mmap the card's DMA buffer into user space. A while back Amancio was working on a pre-release version of this driver. Is there any chance of getting this rolling again? I still have the old sources myself, and we could merge in some of the recent sound stuff that other people have contributed (the AWE32 work, Andrey Chernov's DMA restart) Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.