18 Nov
2004
18 Nov
'04
11:16 a.m.
Giuliano Pochini wrote:
No, it's not hard because there are a lot of skilled people around, but
the card would be expensive. There was a thread about a project of "open
source" graphic card recently on lkml.
I know about the project in question, as I participate in the discussion
about it.
an open design sound card would be even easier to design... an atmel
microcontroller and a pair of ADC / DAC chips should be enough to desing
something with a USB port.
now for the firewire thing, I guess a xilinx chip can do it, and those
are not that expensive either...
18 Nov
18 Nov
2:54 p.m.
Amaury Jacquot wrote:
Giuliano Pochini wrote:
I don't think it's possible to obtain the same price vs performance with
a self-developed device. The skills won't be a problem indeed, but as
most of us are doing this in our spare time, I don't think we'll find
the time to keep up with commercial specs. But the major problem would
be the manufacturing cost as we won't have the mass-production benefits
commercial companies have.
Why don't we support the manufacturers that do support us? After all,
there are some that provide us with what we need, and I don't see that
mentioned that often. I'm quite confident that for most needs you can
find a card from a manufacturer that supports ALSA development. Correct
me if I'm wrong, but I got the impression that for example RME and ESI
actively support the development of ALSA drivers for their producs.
It might be more usefull to compile a list of Linux-friendly
manufacturers and make some noise about such a list. This might be
something for the linuxaudio.org people?
Greets,
Pieter Palmers
No, it's not hard because there are a lot of skilled people around, but
the card would be expensive. There was a thread about a project of "open
source" graphic card recently on lkml.
I know about the project in question, as I participate in the
discussion about it.
an open design sound card would be even easier to design... an atmel
microcontroller and a pair of ADC / DAC chips should be enough to
desing something with a USB port.
now for the firewire thing, I guess a xilinx chip can do it, and those
are not that expensive either... 
5:04 p.m.
At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:54:58 +0000,
Pieter Palmers wrote:
Why don't we support the manufacturers that do support us? After all,
there are some that provide us with what we need, and I don't see that
mentioned that often. I'm quite confident that for most needs you can
find a card from a manufacturer that supports ALSA development. Correct
me if I'm wrong, but I got the impression that for example RME and ESI
actively support the development of ALSA drivers for their producs.
Well, the ALSA support shall be achieved sooner or later :)
But it's true that there is still a significant gap between the
product release and the support on Linux.
Once people recognize the importance of Linux desktop, this gap will
be decreaed, I guess.
My biggest concern is the chaos like what has happend on USB
audio/midi (or look at ACPI). I really hope such a theatrical
confusion won't happen on fireware audio. The precised specification
doesn't always lead to a good result :)
Takashi
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