TODO file

[Gregory Nowak]

I'm forwarding Deedra's message to the list, since it came to me
directly. I do agree that outstanding bugs which effect everyone
should be solved first, and wish list items such as internal ISA cards
should be probably given lower priority.

Greg


----- Forwarded message from deedra Waters <deedra at the-brannons.com> -----

Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:00:55 -0700
From: deedra Waters <deedra at the-brannons.com>
To: Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net>
Subject: Re: TODO file

i would say we need to find out how many people are actually still using those
i know of at least 2-3. if there are say 10 people that actually use those
synths then maybe it's worth looking at. but honestly i'd focus on the main
bugs first .  and i mean the bugs that really need fixing then after those are
fixed then move on to the hardware synths if there's time..


personally it's been close to 10 years since i was able to have a hardware
synth and with the stuff i carry around these days and with how bulky they can
be it's not worth the extra back pain to worry about hardware synths.


honestly at this point, i really wish someone would fix the garbled speach bug
because it's largely why i dont use speakup  in the console any more. I have
speakup as a backup at this point because it got too frustrating to use with
garbled speech on a machine that's smp and no way i'm disabling cores just to
have speech that's not garbled.




On 3/15/19 4:54 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:39:55PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Okash Khawaja, le ven. 15 mars 2019 10:57:35 +0000, a ecrit:
>>> 1. What are our options for internal synths which still use direct
>>> communication with hardware: acntpc, decpc, dtlk and keypc?
>> I was thinking they could just remain in staging. The corresponding
>> hardware is very difficult to make work nowadays (typically ISA cards),
>> so I don't think it is a problem that they are not in mainline.
> I'd just like to chime in here, and say that at least myself, and one
> more person on this list are still using a DoubleTalk PC card (dtlk
> driver). While I understand the two of us are in the minority, it
> would be appreciated if these cards could be made to work once again
> with newer kernels.
> 
> Unfortunately, shipping a PC within the U.S. is quite expensive, never
> mind shipping one from the U.S. to the U.K. Since this hardware is
> also rare as Samuel points out, I admit parting with that machine to
> ship it would be a last resort option for me. Getting into linux
> development is on my to do list, so maybe I'll resolve this myself one
> day if I'm still using the DoubleTalk card by that time.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 


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