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From: "P.J.Leonard" <P.J.Leonard@bath.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: want Yamaha ds2416(dsp factory) for Linux?
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P.J.Leonard wrote:
> 
> sharkey@ale.physics.sunysb.edu wrote:
> >
> > > I think it is worth saying that the Macintosh market is not that small AS
> > > LONG AS THE AUDIO DRIVERS are concerned. In fact, the only market shares
> > > Apple still owns are :
> > >
> > > -prepress (although it is slowly moving to NT, which is sad because
> > > PowerPC's are faster than Pentium with 2D transforms)
> > > -education (some high-volume orders from governments in UK and US, I think)
> > > -music
> > >
> > > However, I totally agree with the fact the we must code drivers for cards
> > > people actually own ;-)
> >
> > Well said, but let's not forget that the primary motivator for free software
> > is self interest.  People write the free software that they want to use.
> >
> > That said, the number of people who need to own a card before it becomes
> > supported is 1, provided that that one person is the driver author.
> 
>  I am only a casual lurker of this list because
> I am hoping that ALSA will cure some of the problems that I have
> experienced
> with OSS. But if I could see how to do it and found some time I would
> like to see what is involved in getting my AWE32 working under ALSA.
> Since the main work has already been done for OSS it should not be too
> difficult ?
> 
>  The last time I download the ALSA stuff I could work out where I would
                                                   ^
                                                  NOT     


argghhh !!!!

> start to implement a driver for my AWE32.
> 
>  Is there a template driver that can be used as a starting point for
> writting a new driver ?
> 
>   cheers Paul.
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