Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 20:21:38 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.5 Message-ID: <19970910202138.03026@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199708171151.NAA09197@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Sun, Aug 17, 1997 at 01:51:33PM %2B0200 References: <199708171151.NAA09197@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo:
|> Subject: any plans for soundriver or bktr?
|
...
| Also we should make a port of fxtv, and update vic drivers.
| (also, fxtv is probably a small program; does people agree that for
| each driver there ought to be, in the standard distribution, at least
| one small program to test the driver ? If this is the case, fxtv
| could go into /usr/bin)
Glad to see we were thinking along the same lines (just now sitting
down to my backed-up 2Meg multimedia folder). fxtv-0.44 was released
Monday in port form. I figured it'd be a shame to have that great bktr
driver on our next CD, but require folks to net-grab to do something useful
with it.
A few folks have reported good results with 0.44 so far. If I don't
hear about any major problems building the port by tomorrow, I'll upload to
/incoming to beat the 9/15 2.2.5 freeze deadline with a few days to spare.
Is there something besides uploading to incoming I need to do to tag
it as a requested port for 2.2.5?
|* sounddriver
|
| here things are messy: the current driver (3.0) is not well supported;
I sure appreciate your and Amancio's work toward PnP, full duplex,
Voxware 3.5, quake sound. Those features will be real cool when they
stabilize and will surely entice more folks over from other OSs.
Having said that though, the current Voxware 3.0 driver works very
well for me. Please, let's not replace it in the tree until we have card
support at least as stable in the replacing driver as is in the current
driver for all of the previously supported cards. That hasn't happened
yet, for SB16 cards in particular.
Thanks,
Randall
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