[Openvortex-dev] Re: Aureal progress?

[Manuel Jander]

Hello Andreas,

Andreas Mohr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 11:13:47PM -0400, Manuel Jander wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > Andreas Mohr wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just reread your Aureal postings to ALSA, and it seems your driver is
> > > pretty much working now: great work!! (I know what it's like to write a 
> > > driver
> > > TOTALLY from scratch, I wrote azt3328)
> > > However, would it be too much hassle to have it committed to CVS? ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Well, it works. You can Play Quake, use XMMS, use the MPU401 MIDI uart, 
> > mixer etc,
> > but there are still some bugs. Sometimes the SampleRateConverter on the 
> > AU8830
> > and probably the AU8810 wents "crazy". I'm not sure if thats good enough 
> > to actually
> > include it into ALSA yet ... ?
> >    
> OF COURSE it is! ;)
> Just add a module message that it's an EXPERIMENTAL driver, and I'm sure
> everyone will like it.
>  
OK Vortex people. Are we ready for a sneak preview ?

> I think it's too difficult (I'm *LAZY*). And I also don't use anything else
> other than CVS, so... :)
>  
Check out the CVS on
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/openvortex/
I though your appeal to CVS was joke :) sorry.

> > > Oh, and of course I'm not the only one by far - other people probably don't
> > > even know that Aureal support might exist ;)
> > > (so imagine how astonished they would be if they suddenly found an Aureal
> > > driver in ALSA ;)
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Tell them :) ...
> >    
> Yep, and they'd react like: hmm, I looked everywhere but couldn't find that
> driver in ALSA CVS. Where the heck is it??? :)
>  
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>  
>
> > > Also, Takashi is EXTREMELY fast at committing stuff, so the "development
> > > overhead" of having a "public" driver is not even worth discussing...
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > I think if the other Vortex people agree, that would be OK.
> >    
> Oh, several people even? Cool!
>  
Yeah we are several people. Fortunately some of are coding :)

> Greets,
>
> Andreas Mohr
>  

Greets

Manuel Jander

PD: To the Openvortex people: Any comments ?