Porting ALSA drivers to OSS may be easy, according to OSS ;)
Well, I looked here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pcm&sektion=4 Instead of here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-i386.html#AEN1101 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware-i386.html#AEN1762 I haven't tried FreeBSD for a long time (before SB Live! was supported) but I knew my SB Live! is supported for some time now. I also have read comments from others about sound support on FreeBSD, and when I compared the supported cards on the pcm man page with the commercial OSS and ALSA supported cards I felt they were right. But I'm much happier now that I know I've searched the wrong places and FreeBSD supports much more soundcards that I could have imagined. I can't remember which is the soundcard in the old Compaq Presario laptop my wife has. But my desktop will migrate in a few days. Thanks for the quick answer :) Bruno BTW, you're right about the drivers, I haven't understood it the first time (OSS API != OSS drivers). -Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quarta-feira, 26 de Maio de 2004 20:30 To: Bruno Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Porting ALSA drivers to OSS may be easy, according to OSS ;) In the last episode (May 26), Bruno said: I know FreeBSD is mainly conceived as a performance server OS and lacks in the multimedia field when compared with Linux which is much more generic. But in terms of sound I think the scenario could change easily: you don't have ALSA drivers but according to this post it's possible to convert ALSA drivers into free OSS drivers: http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=48#48 This could mean reduced need for commercial OSS driver support :) And of course there may be licensing issues. Not really my problem since I have a SB Live!, but this could easily improve FreeBSD image on the multimedia *NIX field :) Are there very many cards not supported by FreeBSD? Note that OSS can mean two things: drivers provided by 4front, or a userland API for playing sound. FreeBSD's sound system provides an OSS API, but is not OSS internally. Porting a Linux ALSA driver to FreeBSD is probably about as easy as porting a Linux OSS driver. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Porting ALSA drivers to OSS may be easy, according to OSS ;)
In the last episode (May 26), Bruno said: > I know FreeBSD is mainly conceived as a performance server OS and > lacks in the multimedia field when compared with Linux which is much > more generic. > > But in terms of sound I think the scenario could change easily: you > don't have ALSA drivers but according to this post it's possible to > convert ALSA drivers into free OSS drivers: > > http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=48#48 > > This could mean reduced need for commercial OSS driver support :) And > of course there may be licensing issues. > > Not really my problem since I have a SB Live!, but this could easily > improve FreeBSD image on the multimedia *NIX field :) Are there very many cards not supported by FreeBSD? Note that OSS can mean two things: drivers provided by 4front, or a userland API for playing sound. FreeBSD's sound system provides an OSS API, but is not OSS internally. Porting a Linux ALSA driver to FreeBSD is probably about as easy as porting a Linux OSS driver. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Porting ALSA drivers to OSS may be easy, according to OSS ;)
Hi, I've tinkered a bit with Linux and FreeBSD, but still consider myself as newbie. I'm probably going for FreeBSD since I can see the best strenghts that Linux experts point in their distros already exist on FreeBSD, mostly coherent file structure, init scripts and package management. And a great plus in FreeBSD is the documentation, never seen anything like that in a Linux distro before (Debian seems the closest to me). I know FreeBSD is mainly conceived as a performance server OS and lacks in the multimedia field when compared with Linux which is much more generic. But in terms of sound I think the scenario could change easily: you don't have ALSA drivers but according to this post it's possible to convert ALSA drivers into free OSS drivers: http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=48#48 This could mean reduced need for commercial OSS driver support :) And of course there may be licensing issues. Not really my problem since I have a SB Live!, but this could easily improve FreeBSD image on the multimedia *NIX field :) Thanks in advance, Bruno ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
