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From: Sam Ockman <ockman@varesearch.com>
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Subject: Re: Work can begin...
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Okay, I just went to Turtle Beach's web page and they have a PCI board
called the Daytona board.  (It's US $129.)  So forget about Diamond  (I'm
still upset with Diamond that they wouldn't give info to XFree a few years
ago.)

So is the Daytona PCI board the right way to go?

-Sam


On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 04:01:32PM -0800, Sam Ockman wrote:
> 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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