From nobody Thu May 25 06:32:02 2023 X-Original-To: questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4QRdWZ4wQkz4ClDs for ; Thu, 25 May 2023 06:32:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d501000169f4eb.7b57ca578ffb146e623e2acc135b9fc8@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4QRdWZ37FDz4QcQ for ; Thu, 25 May 2023 06:32:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d501000169f4eb.7b57ca578ffb146e623e2acc135b9fc8@email-od.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1684996330; x=1687588330; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info:subject:to:from:cc:reply-to; bh=kVznGUtoLlkvT0NIwl2Hs7BTBEWnfX2IvV13WOxy84o=; b=LnZq+gYv8VM368cW+qISpxqHO9DEIbDwS4aQGHprSQUZLL7IIRE2MQ636iyK19xk5t+yU+hwl8Dei/0dE/Cu+MH734xBJ7cinRejr0jrZp8tmQqVQzJb7f0PMlQ/ZGE5QCnDCMBY89q0cTKXEvzkQdM4CezHuoCaJ4fhpNdC7Z4= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xZDUwMTAwMDE2OWY0ZWIucXVlc3Rpb25zPWZyZWVic2Qub3Jn Received: from r3.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r3.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.190.3]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 25 May 2023 02:32:06 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (86-42-20-118-dynamic.b-ras1.bdt.dublin.eircom.net [86.42.20.118]) by r3.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 25 May 2023 02:32:05 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.95 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1q24W2-0007Cs-OY; Thu, 25 May 2023 07:32:02 +0100 Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 07:32:02 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Steven Friedrich Subject: Re: Overview of Linux and FreeBSD sound systems? Message-Id: <20230525073202.588b362f0df37b75d1994e4d@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <718e2b3e-3c57-d9b5-642e-6f6b54b896ce@Gmail.com> References: <718e2b3e-3c57-d9b5-642e-6f6b54b896ce@Gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd13.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4QRdWZ37FDz4QcQ X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Wed, 24 May 2023 21:16:31 -0400 Steven Friedrich wrote: > The base sound system is OSS, right? For FreeBSD sort of, I'll quote from the man page sound(4) which is an excellent overview of sound support in FreeBSD. HISTORY The sound device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.6 as pcm, written by Luigi Rizzo. It was later rewritten in FreeBSD 4.0 by Cameron Grant. The API evolved from the VOXWARE standard which later became OSS standard. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith