Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:25:22 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Waay OT Now... FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation Message-ID: <4F023CE2.3000808@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <201201021910.29105.lobo@bsd.com.br> References: <CAGy-%2Bi-m7hUfrUPKaG6FAiv8cor6%2BWXUW-OwWA=uOAt0yDToag@mail.gmail.com> <CAGy-%2Bi_QW78ezYv22YGUg3UCNa4xWdAnKfPMkQxGBfmmiDjK0g@mail.gmail.com> <20120102214243.GA86702@sputnjik.localdomain> <201201021910.29105.lobo@bsd.com.br>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 01/03/12 08:10, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2012 18:42:44 Nikola Pavlović wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 03:32:17PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > [troll snipper] > >>> ..... perhaps could be a porting of the IOKit >>> driver system from Darwin, perhaps even allowing Darwin drivers to be >>> used on FreeBSD. All of this can go into a kernel module so that if all >>> one uses is native FreeBSD drivers made for FreeBSDs normal driver API, >>> they won't need to load this subsystem. >> You see, you could have just proposed this in the first place instead of >> provoking a flame fest, ranting about, mostly imagined, lack of >> documentation, GUI configuration tools and giving condescending lectures >> on programmer productivity. Oh well... > Right on, Nikola ! > > But David's paragraph I left in is a "real dream" for me. It is basicaly > what's keeping me from using FBSD as my audio workstation. > > I have an Echo Gina3D card there is simply no FBSD driver for it. But there > are Mac drivers from Echo!. > > I even too a shot at downloading the framework/API from Echo (windows :( ) > but it is just way above me. > > A colegue from Japan had written a driver for an old Echo Gina 20 bit which I > managed to compile and load (believe it or not) but it was for FBSD 5. I tried > to compile it on my FBSD 8 STABLE but it issues too much errors that (again) > is beyond my capacity. > > But I'm a stubborn one, so I'll try to keep learning from my mistakes. Maybe > one day a new driver for FBSD will be born. Completely off thread now... but I've had success using FBSD as an audio workstation for a recording job. Used Audacity, Rosegarden, hydrogen and Jack with a Yamaha usb soundboard. Midi was an issue though, and I used a linux workstation with Jack using net backend. That was over a year ago, and now I believe there is a jack midi interface for FBSD. Works well, but your hardware sounds like it does differ greatly, sorry.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4F023CE2.3000808>