[haiku] Re: AW: Re: Use BeOS Drivers

> Rob Judd schrieb:
> > Stephan Assmus wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 2009-05-13 at 14:02:50 [+0200], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> 
> > > wrote:
> >>>> the driver is located in: /dev/audio/old/cs.../0.
> >>>>
> >>>> Are there any plans till the release of R1 to support old 
> > > > > drivers 
> >>>> like this one?
> >>> Yes, if you send a patch to finish the Legacy node.
> >>>
> >>> http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/media/
> >>> media-add-ons/legacy
> >>
> >> :-) François is right. There is certainly no plan to exclude 
> > > support 
> >> for old drivers, but you cannot really say "there is a plan to 
> > > support 
> >> them in R1". It simply depends on whether someone does that work. 
> > > It 
> >> needs to be someone who cares about it. If developers have working 
> >> sound (ie no personal need), why should they spend time on this?
> >>
> >> Also, have you tried the OSS optional package? Maybe it simply 
> > > works 
> >> for your board.
> > 
> > I can recommend the OSS package. My CMedia CM8738 works great with 
> > it.
> 
> Yeah, that's the one I tested with when working on the OpenSound 
> node. 
> Unfortunately, there is still that bug that playback simply stops 
> after 
> some hours of uptime. The MultiAudio node, which was the basis for 
> the 
> OpenSound node, doesn't seem to have this problem, though, so I am 
> wondering if that isn't a problem somewhere in the OSS driver itself. 

about 6h15 to be precise, and it's really reproduceable here.
I just don't have the time to make a debug build and wait 6h to debug 
it each time, plus restarting media_server makes it behave again, so...

> Also, recording is pretty much untested and probably broken in the 
> OpenSound node, at least after my changes... don't know if it worked 
> before. François?

I did successfully record a few seconds once or twice at least under 
BeOS, so it kind of worked at least.

François.

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