Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] RME hammerfall DSP Multiface: SOLVED :-)
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 20:45:57 EEST
Daniel James wrote:
>>It looks to me like a good place to put this info is in the "user
>>notes" attached to the ALSA sound card matrix:
>
>
>>There is also a WIKI for ALSA soundcard HOWTOs at
>>http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaOpensrcOrg but it looks
>>to me like it is less active recently.
>
>
> Both of these are out of date. I tried to submit updates to the ALSA
> matrix, but it appears to be unmaintained. The SuSE hardware database
> is no better - I was surprised to see this was also out of date,
> given that SuSE is offering a commercial distribution based on ALSA.
>
The matrix is not unmaintained. I lost my main workstation a couple of
months ago and have been trying to get it back since. It is not an easy
task or cheap and I haven't the space on this machine or the inclination
to install apache and mysql.
Unfortunately that is how it goes when people volunteer to help on a
large project like the alsa website.
If I was paid and had someone else to maintain my gear then there
wouldn't be a problem.
> I'm afraid it doesn't reflect very well on the LAU community that all
> these docs are out of date. I know it's a boring job, but it's so
> important to have reliable hardware compatibility information. Is
> there no way we could combine the best parts of the matrix and the
> wiki to make a new, definitive and official document?
>
The alsa website is the definitive document. If you find stuff in the
wiki that you think should be in the website you can submit it. But
until I get a new video card and rescue all the info on my failed HDD it
won't be incorporated into the site.
Hopefully I haven't lost everything that people submitted to me before
the crash. Currently the prognosis is grim though.
On top of all that I also have to recode the backend as Jaroslav
recently upgraded to php4.
Plus I'm having more fun making music at the moment.
It took me at least a year to get it to where it is now. I am not going
to ditch that effort, just out of action for a while.
-- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. http://www.boosthardware.com http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ========================================Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No! We want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything I've ever done.
Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002 The Scotsman
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