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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tyger.inna.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Keeper of FreeBSD soundcard information Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 06:13:15 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <322C2EEB.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <50gd4a$mfl@news.kwik.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Bernie Doehner <bad@wireless.wdc.net> Bernie Doehner wrote: >According to the sound docs, hasty@rah.star-gate.com is the "keeper" >of information on how to setup various sound cards under FreeBSD. > >However, Hasty is now extremely busy and can't support this any more. >Has anyone else taken over this task? No, and we are actively looking for a volunteer. >shoot for running a MAD16. I notice that the FreeBSD drivers are >basicaly modified (slightly) Linux drivers and that just confuses >matters, because I am not very familiar with the Linux device structure Yep, sure does! :-( If the FreeBSD sound code were to find an owner, I'm sure one of their first tasks would be to look at syncronizing with whatever's reasonable in the Linux camp. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project