Amaury Jacquot wrote: > 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... 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
