From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Feb 12 19:46:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D363337B491; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cjsabatier@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1D1Hfv84601; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:17:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cjsabatier) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <003f01c08d12$657a5e60$0504020a@haveblue> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:17:41 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Cameron Grant Subject: Re: 4.2R pcm/sbc AWE records noise, not audio: 16 bit bug?; gus Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Feb-01 Cameron Grant wrote: [snip] > to be quite honest, i've done very little but sound stuff for the last > decade, and attitudes like yours only contribute to my feelings of > dissatisfaction with it. i feel honour-boud to finish what i started, and > probably will, but you should remember that i'm not being paid for this, so > i don't feel that you are in a position to make statements like those. do > feel free to take the torch, i've been wanting to pass it on for a while > now. Cameron, I've been interested for a long time in contributing in some way to audio driver development. I'm a musician, and so, of course, this is an area very near and dear to my heart -- especially MIDI, which we're unfortunately still lacking at this time -- but I have to admit, I'm clueless as to where to begin. I have *zero* experience writing device drivers, although I consider myself a fairly competent C coder (i.e., provided the problem I'm dealing with is something I understand), and have dealt with low-level systems programming in other environments before. Any advice on how one might go about learning the ins and outs of device driver development for FreeBSD? I do have "The Design and Implementation of 4.4 BSD", BTW, as well as "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment". Any other tips would be much appreciated. -- Conrad Sabatier cjsabatier@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message