Re: [Fwd: sound in CURRENT]

I sent this last night to Mark, but forgot to include the list.

BTW, sound was working until just a moment ago.  Broke again.  <sigh>

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 03:31:39PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> 
> > I've seen other reports from people who can't even get their sound
> > chipsets to work at all.  And whoever is currently maintaining the sound
> > code has been *awfully* quiet lately.  Feels like a waste of time
> > reporting anything.
> 
> To reiterate the totally obvious, there is no "they" on an open-source
> project like FreeBSD.  There's only "us" and "us" are almost entirely
> volunteers.  If the sound code is languishing (and it sounds like it
> is), you've got access to the same source code and history we all do.
> If you're dissatisfied with the way "they" are working on it, that's
> the only way to solve it -- volunteer become one of the "us" and dig in.

I'd like to do that, and I have looked at the code some, but I can't make 
heads or tails of what's going on in it.  Very sparsely commented.

I may give it one more shot in earnest before just throwing the towel in 
altogether on it.  I'm just not very optimistic about the possibility of 
solving this thing on my own, though.

If I've offended anyone, it certainly wasn't my intention, and I do 
apologize.  It's just that I've had this nice new Athlon 64 machine for 
several months now, and it's been nothing but trouble.  Really took the fun 
out of getting a new machine.  I've not been in the best of moods lately 
dealing with this ongoing problem.

I'm just about finished downloading Fedora Core 2 here, but am viewing the 
prospect of changing over with *great* trepidation, believe me.  Still 
weighing all the factors, trying to decide if ALSA and friends are enough 
compensation for all I'd be giving up in exchange.  Hard to say.  I know I 
shouldn't be making any final decisions in my current frustrated state of 
mind.

We will see.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads_at_cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"