[Fwd: ALSA request]

[Fwd: ALSA request]

[Patrick Shirkey]

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We are more than happy to field your questions on the alsa devel list.

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Hi, 
My company, Ego Systems Inc., is beginning to consider making our products compatible to ALSA. So far, we haven't made much effort to put our products into the Linux world for some reasons.
We produce soundcards and audio interfaces targeted to both professional and regular consumers. If you don't have much information on this company and its products, looking at www.esi-pro.com will help.
Now that the demand from inside and outside of this company arises, we are seriously willing to hook our products with linux/ALSA.
I've read the 'Getting support for your hardware' section on ALSA website carefully, and got aware of what ALSA developers want from manufacturers.

Now, please give us more detailed procedure we need to take.
If you are not the proper contact point regarding this request, please forward it to a proper person.

Personally, as one of the Linux 'freaks', I hope every Linux user can feel free to use our products.

Best regards,

/*
 *                             
 * Kang, Taegoo
 *
 * R&D dept. / Software Engineer
 * Ego Systems Inc.                  
 *
 * phone: +82-2-2164-9832
 *
 * www.esi-pro.com 
 *                            
 */


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Re: [Fwd: ALSA request]

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> We are more than happy to field your questions on the alsa devel list.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
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> Subject:
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> From:
> "TG Kang" <tg@egosys.net>
> Date:
> Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:59:22 +0900
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>  
> Hi, 
> My company, Ego Systems Inc., is beginning to consider making our products compatible to ALSA. So far, we haven't made much effort to put our products into the Linux world for some reasons.
> We produce soundcards and audio interfaces targeted to both professional and regular consumers. If you don't have much information on this company and its products, looking at www.esi-pro.com will help.
> Now that the demand from inside and outside of this company arises, we are seriously willing to hook our products with linux/ALSA.
> I've read the 'Getting support for your hardware' section on ALSA website carefully, and got aware of what ALSA developers want from manufacturers.
> 
> Now, please give us more detailed procedure we need to take.
> If you are not the proper contact point regarding this request, please forward it to a proper person.
> 
> Personally, as one of the Linux 'freaks', I hope every Linux user can feel free to use our products.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> /*
>  *                             
>  * Kang, Taegoo
>  *
>  * R&D dept. / Software Engineer
>  * Ego Systems Inc.                  
>  *
>  * phone: +82-2-2164-9832
>  *
>  * www.esi-pro.com 
>  *                            
>  */
> 

The first step is to publish datasheets on your products and have them 
publically downloadable from your web site.
These data sheets should contain as much about the sound card as 
possible. There should be enough information in the datasheet, so that 
anyone could write a driver for any operating system.
You currently have a WDM driver for windows. All the information about 
the card that was used to write the WDM driver should be in this datasheet.
If you could also publish the source code to the current WDM windows 
driver, that would also help, as source code combined with a datasheet 
makes for very good documentation.

Once you have all this information public, we can then move on to the 
next stage.

James


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Re: [Fwd: ALSA request]

[Daniel Wagner]

> Now that the demand from inside and outside of this company arises, we are
> seriously willing to hook our products with linux/ALSA.

Does this include the QuataFire 610 breakout box too?  I'm asking
because I planing to work on a driver for Firewire based break out
boxes and it doesn't make much sense to do things twice.

daniel


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Re: [Fwd: ALSA request]

[Apostolos Dimitromanolakis]

Hi,

We appreciate your interest in supporting writing Linux drives for your 
products.  There are 2 ways to have your products supported:

1. Your company writes a driver following the ALSA driver specification 
for the sound cards you are interested in supporting. Then the code of 
the driver will become part of the ALSA drivers that are included in 
every linux distribution automatically. This means that the source code 
of the driver will become part of the ALSA project and can benefit for 
further improvements by the open-source community.

2. Your company releases information on programming the chips of the 
sound card to the ALSA developers (through the alsa-devel mailing list 
for example) and the developers of ALSA take care of writing a driver 
for you automatically. This means no work on your part other than 
providing help to the developers with the datasheets of the chips, 
specific interconnections between them and answering any questions that 
arise. Again the code will become part of the ALSA project and will be 
included in all future kernel releases.

In the case of your company I think the 2nd way will be the best as 
there is already partial support for some Egosys based soundcards in 
Linux and the developers that wrote those drivers can finish the gaps 
with some more information from your part.

Apostolos


> Subject:
> ALSA request
> From:
> "TG Kang" <tg@egosys.net>
> Date:
> Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:59:22 +0900
> To:
> <pshirkey@boosthardware.com>
>
> To:
> <pshirkey@boosthardware.com>
>
>
>  
> Hi,
> My company, Ego Systems Inc., is beginning to consider making our 
> products compatible to ALSA. So far, we haven't made much effort to 
> put our products into the Linux world for some reasons.
> We produce soundcards and audio interfaces targeted to both 
> professional and regular consumers. If you don't have much information 
> on this company and its products, looking at www.esi-pro.com 
> <http://www.esi-pro.com> will help.
> Now that the demand from inside and outside of this company arises, we 
> are seriously willing to hook our products with linux/ALSA.
> I've read the 'Getting support for your hardware' section on ALSA 
> website carefully, and got aware of what ALSA developers want from 
> manufacturers.
>  
> Now, please give us more detailed procedure we need to take.
> If you are not the proper contact point regarding this request, please 
> forward it to a proper person.
>  
> Personally, as one of the Linux 'freaks', I hope every Linux user can 
> feel free to use our products.
>  
> Best regards,
>  
> /*
>  *                            
>  * Kang, Taegoo
>  *
>  * R&D dept. / Software Engineer
>  * Ego Systems Inc.                 
>  *
>  * phone: +82-2-2164-9832
>  *
>  * www.esi-pro.com <http://www.esi-pro.com>
>  *                           
>  */
>  
>  




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Re: [Fwd: ALSA request]

[Peter Zubaj]

Looks like Ego Systems Inc. has something to do with Audiotrack.
(there is link to them).
I know there are some people, who are trying to get support for
AudioTrak Prodigy 7.1 (I think that AC97 codec part is not working).

Looks like most of these souncards are based on Envy24. There is alsa
driver for Envy24. Only think what is needed to know is where and how
are connected DAC and ADC to this chip and how to setup this. I don't
think there will be to much problems to add support for these cards if
these informations will be available.

Peter Zubaj



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