On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 11:30 +1100, Nathan Creek wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > It's impossible to tell how difficult it will be to develop a driver > > until someone tries it. If you're looking for a guarantee that it will > > be possible to support the card, you won't get one. > > Thanks Lee. I'm not looking for a guarantee. I'm just looking for more > information about what would be involved so that I can decide weather > it's worth taking a chance on getting the card. > > Let's say I went and bought the card today, bought it home, and plugged > it in. What would be the next steps for me to get ALSA support developed > for it? > > Would I just need to run programs (lspci?) to gather the needed > information?
This will probably not be enough. > or would I need to physically open the unit and somehow > track which pins on the IC's are connected to what? What tools would I > need to do this? I'm a software engineer and have limited electrical > engineering knowledge, but I know my way around a multimeter. Would that > be enough? > Any or all of the above. You can search the ALSA bug tracker and mailing list archives to see what has been required in the past and how it turned out. > Would I need to get information from the manufacturer? If so what > information would I ask for? It's impossible to say because no one has tried it yet. It's possible you could get the card and then none of the ALSA developers will have time to help and you'll have to do all the work yourself. It's also possible that you'll end up with limited support (some features not working). Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
