Create Extigy

[Derek Young]

>Do you already know 
>about 'http://www.cs.umass.edu/~cochran/'?
>(link from 'http://opensource.creative.com/')
>
>18.04.2003; 23:41:12
>[SorAlx]  http://cydem.org.ua/

Couple issues.. one the guy created a /dev/ir 
device... which isn't accurate because the extigy 
has a knob on the front which you turn that 
adjusts the volume in the software of your 
computer. That isn't IR :-P not to mention 
various other multimedia control type devices 
might show up in the next few years.

No dolby surround sound. 

He doesn't know how to update the firmware.... I 
do. I might figure out something where the person 
downloads the latest firmware and put it in 
the /ports/distfiles (a la, java).

The linux usb and sound support is not exactly 
like ours.

It can only play at 48KHz..

Writing this driver is a huge task, however it is 
much more simple than it looks. Right now on my 
laptop I have one of those crappy Intel ICH3 
sound cards, that won't work at all. I am really 
not capable of pulling out equipment to open up 
my laptop and sniff pci data going to it while 
windows XP uses it.

The Extigy (or other USB devices) you can run 
snoop usb and log everything that happens. 
Compare that log to what FreeBSD does, and you 
can see your problem.

However, there is a ton of things supported by 
the Extigy that I think might just be software. 
With CMMS on playing a mp3 takes around 10% of my 
CPU. Heh.



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