From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 12 15:55:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03091 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03024; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:54:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmaddox@scsn.net) Received: from rhiannon.scsn.net ([209.12.57.71]) by mail.scsn.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-41950U6000L1100S0) with ESMTP id AAA179; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:44:32 -0400 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by rhiannon.scsn.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA01660; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:53:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dmaddox) Message-ID: <19981012185359.I1157@scsn.net> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:53:59 -0400 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav_?= Cc: Luigi Rizzo , David Kulp , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rvplayer requires pcm for stable Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net References: <199810120454.VAA02154@board66.cruzers.com> <199810120541.GAA19591@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <19981012042621.B1296@scsn.net> <19981012172741.B1157@scsn.net> <19981012181529.H1157@scsn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981012181529.H1157@scsn.net>; from Donald J. Maddox on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:15:29PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:15:29PM -0400, Donald J. Maddox wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav wrote: > > dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) writes: > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 04:13:53PM +0200, Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav wrote: > > > > dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) writes: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > > the voxware driver is essentially unmaintained, unless we can find a > > > > > > volunteer (which i am not)... > > > > > It may be 'unmaintained', but it works perfectly in -current, even for > > > > > rvplayer, and it supports MIDI :-) I hope very much that some multimedia > > > > > guru will pick up support of the Voxware driver, or add MIDI support to > > > > > pcm... (I'm not a multimedia guru, before you suggest it :-) ) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Did you read this part? :-) > > > > IMHO the latter is the better choice. Luigi's pcm driver is much > > > > cleaner and thorougher than Voxware. I will not cry over Voxware > > > > when/if it's bobitted out of the tree. > > > FWIW, I agree. The only reason I can think of to justify the continued > > > existence of Voxware is the lack of MIDI support in pcm. > > > > ...a situtation which will hopefully be remedied as soon as someone > > sits down and writes it. Did I hear you volunteer? ;) No. I don't use it. Voxware does everything my sound card knows how to do. I'll be using Voxware till it rots, I expect. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message