I've had this sort of project on my mind for a year or two. (Since my first run in with the HDSP 9652 under Linux in early 2003.) I am, unlike I think many people here, a hardware designer by trade. Mostly chips, but my engineers had done boards for our chips. Coincedentally I was laid off yesterday and am sitting at home thinking about what to do with myself during my current delimma... On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:49:29 -0600, Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That is a damn good rant! I agree completely. Unfortunately I only do > software :-/ > > Jan > > > > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:16, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:09 +0100, 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. > > > > And I posted a [possibly OT] rant to that thread about how this was a > > waste of time and how you could REALLY make a killing with open sound > > hardware. > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/23/292 > > > > I got one "right on, brother" response via private mail and that was it. > > But then again half the kernel guys don't have sound cards in their > > machines ;-) > > > > Lee > > > >
