From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 21:19:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA09552 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:19:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09546 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA27841; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:19:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:19:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Ian Pallfreeman cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newer sound stuff? In-Reply-To: <199701231634.QAA00609@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Ian Pallfreeman wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote: > > > Considering that the guspnp6 patchkit is built for 2.2-ALPHA/BETA, I'm > > surprised it even compiled on current. > > There ain't _that_ much difference... I'd've been surprised if it didn't. > > My point, though: Why is the 2.2/3.0 sound code so old? > > I'm supping -CURRENT since it seems like "a good thing to do", and I'd rather > like an up-to-date version of the sound driver in there. Is this terribly > unrealistic? Because no one's bothered to commit newer code. What we got works. Plus, there is a big legal morass over VoxWare (they went commercial, and VoxWare is a used name), AND they want to give us something for free, so I'm GUESSING that we're waiting for them (Hannau) to give us something. Ask in multimedia@freebsd.org for details... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major