Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-03-05 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
Here's the latest. http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/index5-pd.html I liked better the version which had the explanation of the project. What were its problems? I.e., why it was taken off? This new page is too wide. Could the title be broken to two lines? Then title's height would match

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-03-02 Thread Patrick Shirkey
I have just done some work on the alsa-howto wiki for the cmipci card. I intend to use this as the template for all the other cards. I appreciate any constructive criticism. http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=cmipci -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd For the discerning hardware

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-28 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
From: Patrick Shirkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/index4-pd.html Please ignore my previous mail, posted minute ago. It looks like my help is not needed at all... Juhana ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-27 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Paul sent me a revised edition of the alsa home page with more of a current feel than the previous version so you can find it here: http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/index4-pd.html I have retained the link to the LAU-guide because I know it helps new users to find needed information.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-27 Thread Patrick Shirkey
--- Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree. I just went through the process of teaching a friend how to use li nux and he needed every piece of information I could give him. It is my opinio n that repetiton and hand holding is the key to success for all newbies. (Base d on teaching ESL

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-26 Thread Paul Davis
There was some cruft at the end of the file so I may have fixed it now. yep, that worked. --p ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-25 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Patrick Shirkey wrote: I have just uploaded a template for the idea PD had to make a complete howto for each card and link it to the sound card matrix or something similar. [...] http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/template2.html looks OK. a few nitpicks: 1) don't

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-25 Thread Patrick Shirkey
--- Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Patrick Shirkey wrote: I have just uploaded a template for the idea PD had to make a complete howto for each card and link it to the sound card matrix or something similar. [...] http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/template2.html

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-25 Thread Paul Davis
Ok I can give the command to load the soundcore module instead. eg. modrobe soundcore modprobe -n soundcore will test for its existence without doing anything. Well it is the most popular unix editor. It is just an example for new users w ho may not even know how to edit a file. pointing

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-25 Thread Patrick Shirkey
--- Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I can give the command to load the soundcore module instead. eg. modrobe soundcore modprobe -n soundcore will test for its existence without doing anything. Ok. Well it is the most popular unix editor. It is just an example for new users w ho may

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-25 Thread Patrick Shirkey
You could try. http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/index.html Otherwise it's windohs or bpftp that are corrupting the files somewhere. same deal. i get the page source, it looks OK, but doesn't render. There was some cruft at the end of the file so I may have fixed it now. -- Patrick

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-21 Thread James Tappin
On Friday 15 February 2002 12:12, Patrick Shirkey wrote: And here's my attempt at incorporating a few of the ideas for the home page. http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/index.html Possibly finished but the idea is there. KISS. If anyone can be bothered cutting the borders off the links

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-20 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Patrick Shirkey wrote: I have just uploaded a template for the idea PD had to make a complete howto for each card and link it to the sound card matrix or something similar. [...] http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/template2.html Looks very good. Also I have not

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-19 Thread Patrick Shirkey
I have just uploaded a template for the idea PD had to make a complete howto for each card and link it to the sound card matrix or something similar. You can find it here: http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/template2.html I would appreciate help from people to collect these things. Working

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-19 Thread Mark Constable
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:01, Patrick Shirkey wrote: http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/alsa/template2.html I hope you don't mind me adding the above contents to this Wiki below... http://alsa.opensrc.org/?page=cmipci It took me less than 2 minutes to create the above page, and anyone can revise

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-15 Thread Patrick Shirkey
--- Mark Constable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW here is a quick and dirty Wiki that might encourage someone to set up something for real, if it proves useful. Having a Wiki is one thing, encouraging folks to actually input something useful is another... but, it can't get any easier than this

RE: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-15 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
] Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation? --- Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently showed a Mac user interested in using Linux for live stage work (no gui needed) the ALSA site so they could get some idea of progress... they just laughed and said there was _nothing_

RE: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-15 Thread Kevin Conder
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: As ALSA is now in the linux kernel, should the HOWTO be part of the linux documents HOWTO pages ? First of all, the ALSA-sound-mini-HOWTO *is* a part of the Linux Documentation Project at http://www.linuxdoc.org. Is this what you were

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-15 Thread Paul Davis
rant Finally, if you're going to turn everything over to the Wikki kiddies then count me out! I believe in quality over quantity. /rant isn't there a way to limit wiki access? what i like about wiki is the ease of updating it every time something occurs to me. no CVS. it feels right. just

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-15 Thread Andy Wingo
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Kevin Conder wrote: rant Finally, if you're going to turn everything over to the Wikki kiddies then count me out! I believe in quality over quantity. /rant having written my share of documents, it's not the format that matters; one format can be converted

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-15 Thread Kevin Conder
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Andy Wingo wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Kevin Conder wrote: rant Finally, if you're going to turn everything over to the Wikki kiddies then count me out! I believe in quality over quantity. /rant having written my share of documents, it's not the format that

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-14 Thread Patrick Shirkey
If you are interested to reorganize contents of ALSA web site, I can give you CVS write access and you can show your ideas in some subdirectory for clarification. I have a site where I can put up a revised homepage for now. I was just responding to the call for people to help with the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-14 Thread Mark Constable
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:02, Patrick Shirkey wrote: 1: Less developer news 2: A mission statement 3: More emphasis on information related to vendors What else do people want to see changed? Developers are usually familiar with ALSA and know where to look for further information. To me, the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-14 Thread Patrick Shirkey
--- Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently showed a Mac user interested in using Linux for live stage work (no gui needed) the ALSA site so they could get some idea of progress... they just laughed and said there was _nothing_ there to help them evaluate whether ALSA (therefor Linux) was

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-14 Thread Patrick Shirkey
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Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-13 Thread Patrick Shirkey
ALSA is not an easy code base to come to grips with so we should apply the kiss rule (keep it simple stupid) to help newbies coders get their heads around it. From my perspective the comments are not standardised enough. I haven't checked the code for a couple of months but last time I looked

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-13 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Apart from that what are the job requirements of an ALSA web maintainer and a documentation leader? Ok, do note that I'm not a member of the ALSA dev team, so I can't make any real claims. Hopefully the dev team agrees with at least some of what I'm

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-12 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Kevin Conder wrote: I was wondering about the status of ALSA's API documentation. The last time I checked, the ALSA developers were adding doxygen comments to the source code. Was that project completed? Yes and no. Just like code, there's always room for

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-12 Thread Kevin Conder
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Kai Vehmanen wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Kevin Conder wrote: The last time I checked, the ALSA developers were adding doxygen comments to the source code. The best part of javadoc is that it adds very little overhead. I'm confused. Is the ALSA project