From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Fjellstrom Subject: Re: ALSA homepage redesign Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:54:40 -0600 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <0GUZ004XGJ80LM@l-daemon> References: <0GUZ00GU73F9MW@l-daemon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <0GUZ00GU73F9MW@l-daemon> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Paul Davis Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On April 22, 2002 08:12 am, you wrote: > >> and testing a few changes), so it'll be clear that the API is finished > >> and code is working. > > > >It is? Last time I tried using Rawmidi on an emu10k1 chip I got no sound. > > I had a soundfont loaded, and tried with my own code and the rawmidi demo > > source. Midi would play with the pmidi program. I've mentioned it once > > before, nothing came of it, so Im mentioning it again. :) > > most people don't understand that there is a total of about 2 people > working on ALSA at any one time. ALSA is not a large, distributed > project team: it consists of Jaroslav and right now Takashi, with > occasional contributions from driver writers and application > developers who wade into the ALSA source code. > > when problems get reported with particular chipsets/audio interfaces, > there is no large group of developers from which one might hope for a > volunteer to study the bug. Takashi and Jaroslav both do good work > tracking down such bugs when they have easy access to the hardware in > question and some time, but for most everything else, the bug waits > until someone steps up to fix it. the hope is that with incorporation > into the 2.5 kernel source base, the set of developers who work on > problems like yours will increase. > Ah. I didn't intend to sound too much like a child... I wasn't trying to force the issue, just let the developers know about it. Its what I usually do when I find a problem that I can't fix myself. I (hopefully) make sure that the right people know about it. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@shaw.ca http://strangesoft.net