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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:52:43 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Cc:        Aaron Siegel <aj@siegel-tech.net>
Subject:   Re: Alsa support
Message-ID:  <200707262252.46023.beech@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200707260938.02312.aj@siegel-tech.net>
References:  <200707211149.19207.beech@freebsd.org> <20070722230809.4d655bd1@localhost> <200707260938.02312.aj@siegel-tech.net>

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> On Sunday 22 July 2007 07:08, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:49:17 -0800
> >
> > Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 22 July 2007, Alexander Leidinger said:
> > > > Quoting Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> (Sat, 21 Jul 2007
> > >
> > > 11:49:17 -0800):
> > > > > I'm trying to port the latest Skype to FreeBSD, but it
> > > > > seems they have dropped all support for OSS. Is there any
> > > > > progress on getting alsa supported?
> > > >
> > > > We are not aware of any effort in getting ALSA up and running
> > > > on FreeBSD.
> > > >
> > > > Bye,
> > > > Alexander.
> > >
> > > Thanks, hopefully someone will pick up the ball, it's
> > > definitely above my pay grade.
> >
> > I looked at getting latest linux skype running under freebsd
> > (didnt get to bother with a port yet). what I have found and some
> > pointers about alsa/oss can be found in this thread
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2007-July/0
> >07112.html
> >
> >
> > _________________________
> > {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome

On Thursday 26 July 2007, Aaron Siegel said:
> Hello
>
> 4Front Technologies Open Sound System does support ALSA application
> and it is not open source. I have not tried it yet, but here are
> some links.
>
> Freebsd release information
> http://www.4front-tech.com/freebsd.html
>
> More release information
> http://www.opensound.com/press/2007/OSSv4.txt
>
> Developers website, Download, Documentation,
> http://developer.opensound.com/

FWIW, I tried the 4front OSS and it wont install on -current, I 
haven't tried 6.x.

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