Re: Status of ALSA documentation?

[Patrick Shirkey <kotau@firstlinux.net>]

--- Paul Davis <pbd@Op.Net> wrote:
>>I recently showed a Mac user interested in using Linux
>>for live stage work (no gui needed) the ALSA site so they
>>could get some idea of progress... they just laughed and
>>said there was _nothing_ there to help them evaluate whether
>>ALSA (therefor Linux) was going to be useful to them... well,
>>not within a 5 minute perusal anyway.
>
>i think this is an excellent, critical point.
>
>with ALSA's adoption into the kernel, we have both (1) a chance that
>more people will write HOWTOs and code but also (2) more people saying
>"what is it?" and "how do i ....?" the current web site fails
>completely at both tasks.
>
>as much as i think we are still aiming for uniform operation for all
>cards (i.e. they just work), i think a good place to start with
>interface HOWTOs would be to take Dan's soundcard matrix, and add
>links from each card name to a HOWTO. The default set of HOWTOs can be
>empty, and we can add to them as time goes on. By empty, what I really
>mean is a boilerplate document that says "if you have this type of
>soundcard, just do X, Y, and Z and it will work". 
>
>there should also be a way to collect card-specific bug reports and
>accessing them all from the HOWTO page. 
>

Very good idea. The alsa-howto can easliy be linked to in this regard. Just needs a slight formatting change and a lot of tedious typing but give me a couple of months and it should be out of the way.

>of course a wiki would be an even better way of collecting card/setup
>specific quirks, but that seems a bit much to ask for right now.
>
>of course, it becomes critical that the matrix be kept up to date,
>which could also use a wiki-style input system.
>

I suggest updating it once every month. Once the bulk is done it should only take about a small amount of work to add new cards. Mostly just copy and paste.


>--p
>
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