Hello,

> Having a port of ALSA would sure round out 5.2 nicely, and would get you 
> MIDI support: http://www.alsa-project.org/

Quote from this page:

"Known bugs

- MIDI on SB live drive not working properly."

Seems MIDI is not a great priority anymore. But I would certainly greet a
new sound architecture. Broken MIDI is at least better than no MIDI. ;)

[porting] 
> I'd certainly be more than willing to throw some money into a paypal 
> account or whatever, and I think there are others who would too.  OSS is 
> so 20th century, lets get FreeBSD into 21st century sound architecture 
> design.  :-)

I would have no objections.
 
> If you're a developer seriously interested in this, lets talk.  So much 
> of FreeBSD development is sponsored by Universities and whatnot that we 
> take it for granted.  When stuff like ALSA doesn't get ported right 
> away, I feel we need to realize our responsibility to contribute to the 
> project as well.

Uh... Ok, I have C experience, but my insight into FreeBSD and sound card
programming (I remember some experiments with soundblasters in DOS times) is
quite limited.

Regards,
Julian Stecklina 

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