[linux-audio-dev] Echo Darla/Gina/Layla/... on Linux

[Brad Arant]

Hello Gang,

Just been listening to the group for about 3 months now. I am a programmer
that has been doing work on Linux for custom development since 1995 on Linux
and would be glad to hammer out an interface for these cards. I have the old
Gina 20 and use only the SPDIF port (cause it does 24 bit to m VM3100Pro). I
do have understanding of the device driver support and have been looking at
the 2.5 kernel for writing several video devices for a client.

If anyone can forward some specs to these cards I would be glad to see what
I can do.

If also have a Darla 24 (No-SPDIF) that I can test with. If anybody has
other cards in this family that would like to test and have been waiting for
drivers then please forward your name to me or this group and I add you to
the beta testing list when I get there.

Thanks -

Brad Arant
BARANT Technologies


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:linux-audio-dev-admin at music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of David
Olofson
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:52 AM
To: linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Echo Darla/Gina/Layla/... on Linux


On Friday 14 March 2003 03.13, Ranjit Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I was wondering whether there'd been any progress on this?

Nope, not yet; not around here anyway. I've heard from a few others
who started messing with it, but AFAIK, no one is actually hacking
right now.


>    I have a Darla card, and would love to get it working under
> Linux. I have experience of assembler (since 1983) if that would be
> of any help..

Well, asm in kernel space is only for CPU specific stuff these days -
but if you've done asm, chances are you have some experience of
programming to the metall. :-) (Which is generally not the case with
C and HLL programmers.)

Do you have the 20 bit version, or a new 24 bit card?

Anyway, getting the full range of cards to work would be interesting,
but there are so many of them, and each one has it's own firmware. I
certainly hope we can get away without pages of code per model
(that's the way it is in the C++ driver), but we'll still need to
test on each model...


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