Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:31:52 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for "old" hardware (was:Re: kern/148741: [sound] Headphones are deaf (do not work) on Lenovo ThinkPad X300) Message-ID: <1354084312.2528.74.camel@q> In-Reply-To: <20121127231130.106340@gmx.com> References: <20121127231130.106340@gmx.com>
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On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 18:11 -0500, Dieter BSD wrote: > Better watch out, or the doctors will say that your body is too old to > spend their time fixing. We already live in such societies. At some point there's not enough manpower to support everything, but I agree, there are so many usages for old computers and there are still many people who continue using QL emulations and stuff like this. In the past computers were tools, nowadays most computers are toys. Promotion does awake needs of stupid people. The funny thing is that this already started in the past. A stupid teacher once said, that the C64 is a toy and PCs are real computers. Nonsense! It depends to the usage. You can use the C64 and other simple computers for serious work and you can play nutty games on the best computer hardware available. Btw. old parallel ports did support relatively good MIDI, IIRC Ac'97. Regarding to the jitter, no serious professional musician will use USB MIDI. Fortunately we've PCI, but here the problem is, that PCI will die out and for FLOSS this is an issue, because new hardware unlikely is supported. On my machine there are still two Envy24 PCI cards mounted, but my new PCIe card, a RME HDSPe AIO is only pseudo-supported, the reason for me to take a look at FreeBSD. Drivers are a serious issue or FLOSS :(. 2 Cents, Ralf
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