Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:29:45 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quality soundcard Message-ID: <20050827122945.5574328d@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050827003806.GI52270@afflictions.org> References: <20050826120035.6FADB16A438@hub.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20050826084734.01f78508@mail.qconline.com> <20050826161527.15f48542@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050827003806.GI52270@afflictions.org>
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:38:07 -0400 Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> wrote: > Thus spake Alexander Leidinger (Alexander@Leidinger.net) [26/08/05 10:22]: > : > But, if the traffic on list multi-media list is any indication, over > : > against the traffic on other lists, multimedia on freebsd seems a bit of a > : > lower-interest arena. > : > : At least not much committers want to make their fingers dirty in the > : sound code... or they don't have the time to do it. > > Could said committers point to a few places a relatively new C coder could > use to learn to write drivers? I'd have no problem getting my fingers > dirty, but the few times I've tried to do so, I was thwarted by not > understanding much of anything. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/oss.html but don't be surprised if it doesn't explain the current way of writting a sound driver. If you find something wrong, please report it here and/or in our PR database. Much better would be a patch which corrects the error, but just a report about outdated content is better than not knowing about the problem at all. Bye, Alexander. -- The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7
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