Alexander Leidinger

Apart from Konstantin (envy24* driver author) I also got a p4 account for Yuriy (emu10kx driver author). Let’s cross fingers for a lot of collaboration in //depot/projects/soundsystem/ now…

Ryan got permission to extend the work he did in the SoC as part of a class at university. He wants to push down the new mixer stuff to the driver level now. He does it in the emu10kx driver (because he has such a card) and maybe in another driver. This will allow to [...]

Shaun had some unrelated software problems so he wasn’t able to do the paperwork requested by Real. Those problems seem to be fixed and he expects to get some time to do the paperwork “soon”. Real is looking forward to this as the FreeBSD build is much better now.

In multimedia@ we have a discussion about the envy24* chips. One question is how to convince companies to provide some technical information or at least free hardware samples. As part of the answer I pointed to http://www.bsdstats.org/ which may be able to provide some numbers (e.g. envy24* chips without a matching driver) which may help [...]

Ariffs changes two months ago to reduce the latency in the soundsystem also prepared the way for multichannel support and Yuriy added multichannel recording to the emu10kx driver (there are some bugs ATM and it is only a proof of concept to play around with it until we get real multichannel support in the generic [...]

DragonFly synced with a not so current version of our soundsystem. I had a little discussion with them and pointed out some recent improvements and some drivers they missed to sync. They don’t have the man power to participate in large improvements, but I hope for some small benefits like bugfixes or additional PCI IDs. [...]

I’m busy with non-FreeBSD related stuff since a while, so there’s not much to say.

RealPlayer: Shaun, the FreeBSD maintainer of the helixplayer port, promised to polish up a patchset when he gets time to port helixplayer to a more recent version and send it to the corresponding helix community (requested by some people at Real [...]

Finally I used some free time to commit the VIA Envy24HT driver of Konstantin Dimitrov to -current. He told me it supports some soundcards which ALSA doesn’t support. Nice!

Please test and say “Thank you!” to him.

I started a wiki page about improving the soundsystem. The idea is similar to the wiki page about improving our linuxolator. It’s a way to tell the people what is currently available as patches (and where), what is broken and needs to be fixed, which improvements we like to see and so on. It’s maybe [...]

I committed the stuff from the sound project just a few minutes ago. So the SoC 2006 has officially ended for me (I just wait for the T-Shirt now… ).

This doesn’t mean I don’t care about the stuff anymore. I will commit fixes in case problems show up and I’m also responsible in case [...]