From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 2 23:28:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAAF5106564A for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 23:28:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CAC8FC18 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 23:28:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24D6B5C21 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:41:13 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F023CE2.3000808@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:25:22 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20120102214243.GA86702@sputnjik.localdomain> <201201021910.29105.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <201201021910.29105.lobo@bsd.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Waay OT Now... FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:28:46 -0000 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.