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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980222215515.9985D-100000@entry.jcu.cz>; from Jaroslav Kysela on Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 10:09:20PM +0100
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Hello...

I'm primarly interested in writing a sound driver for a pci based sound
card.  I don't own one yet....but will buy one or get one shipped out to me
for free (I have a nice job...) as far as I know the only pci sound card out
there is the Diamond Monster Sound...anyone else know of other ones?
Creative Labs is supposedly coming out with an awe 64d which will be pci
soon (is it out already?)  It's specifically for the oem market.

Only problem is I've never written a driver sound or otherwise, and know
nothing about it.  I do know C well, so I think I can do this if people can
point me in the right direction and give me a little hand holding....

(Is it a mistake for me to start with a pci based card?  Should I start with
an isa card?  I'm happy to do a driver for the Multisound Monterey (it's
a combination of a Tahiti and a Rio...I'd probably do the Tahiti part first,
(the soundcard part...the Rio is midi) because that's where my interests
lie.))

I think it's fairly important that we as a project have support for the
awe64 card fairly quickly.  (Hopefully something that can take advantage of
its ability rather than something that treats it as an sb16.)

So, I await people's advice.  Let me know what I should do.

-Sam

On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 10:09:20PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	only 4 people (include me) is subscribed to this list, not very
> much, but we can start (I hope). I made some plan for ELSA project -
> look to WWW site - http://ultra.jcu.cz - button Ultra API - for more
> details. If you want do some work on this project, look to lines in plan
> file and send me appropriate points. Please, look to new header files,
> too. There is some changes in coding style (prefixes).
> 	At first is needed create some basic version of ELSA C library
> which covers control, mixer & pcm interfaces. Other interfaces can't be
> supported yet (they aren't done).
> 	There is needed to start work on ELSA configuration manager, too.
> Detection interface is done, so work may begin. I'm ready to answer
> questions about all interfaces.
> 	Next important question: What soundcards you have? I know - if
> your soundcard isn't supported, you can't work on ELSA library or
> configuration manager etc... Andy have GUS PnP, others? I should work on
> some SoundBlaster code (we have at work SB AWE 32 & SB AWE 64)... You
> should know that this work delay some other work from my side - for
> example create midi or synth interface.
> 
> 						Jaroslav Kysela
> 
> -----
> Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
> Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
> Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic
> 
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