TuneTracker Systems Donates Serial Driver

Posted by: dsuden on Mar 29, 2010 

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TuneTracker Systems commissioned François Revol to create a driver capable of working with PCI serial extender cards.  The driver initially is designed to work with the widely-available Manhattan serial card.  We've donated it to the BeOS and Haiku community and it's available to anyone who wants to use it for any purpose.  The BeOS version is available now for download at Haikuware, and the Haiku version has been added to the svn.

For our own purposes, we'll be using the driver to allow TuneTracker to simultaneously interface with both touch screens and audio switchers, and immediately lets us put out two new "Control Center" system packages that support the combined functionality.  You can see the two new ones at the top of this page:

http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/commandcenter_packages.html

Update...

Hey, I'm editing this blog in Haiku with WebPositive!!  How cool is that?!!!

Comments  

 
0 # RE: TuneTracker Systems Donates Serial Driver — karl 2010-03-30 07:31
Right on great news! Thanks for donating to the community.

Wow, blogging here works in WebPositive, that is good news too! :)
 
 
0 # Thanks, Dane! — Humdinger 2010-03-30 09:40
That's great, Dane! I'm not sure such a serial expansion card is very common for the average user, but donating the code you paid for is very generous!
Do you see more of this kind of contracting work for TTS in the future? Any Haiku-related problems that have to be solved before you can make the switch?

Thanks!
Humdinger
 
 
0 # Definitely plan to donate more programming — dsuden 2010-04-03 15:10
Karl, Humdinger, you're right on track about that. As soon as Command Center 4.2 is out, we're turning our attentions full force on moving toward Haiku, which means we'll be testing every part of the TuneTracker System and looking for what needs fixing on our end or Haiku's end to make everything run great. In the process, we're bound to discover things we need to change in our own code, will stumble upon little issues in Haiku that we can help identify to its coders, and will most likely also find places where we can contribute more toward the development of Haiku code and/or driver code.

Now if we could just get whoever reviews submitted press releases to run our contribution story on the Haiku-OS home page!
 
 
0 # RE: Definitely plan to donate more programming — Humdinger 2010-04-03 23:57
Hi Dane!

Cool that TTS will work with Haiku in the future for mutual benefit! I wished there were more commercial entities discovering Haiku for their product... Not in radio automation, mind you... ;)

Quoting dsuden:
Now if we could just get whoever reviews submitted press releases to run our contribution story on the Haiku-OS home page!


Maybe nudge mmadia on IRC to see what's keeping it in the queue. Also, if it doesn't say so already, add what you wrote above about increased cooperation in the future.
IMO that's definitely news worthy: The only commercial BeOS-based product about to make the switch to Haiku. That's a great vote of confidence once the switch is complete.

[Edited: FWIW: I reported on that aaaages ago; http://www.haiku-gazette.de/node/371 :lol: ]
Thanks Dane!
Humdinger
 
 
0 # RE: TuneTracker Systems Donates Serial Driver — karl 2010-03-30 09:45
There aren't many audio drivers in Haiku that allow recording are there? Isn't that a feature TTS needs?
 
 
0 # RE: TuneTracker Systems Donates Serial Driver — dsuden 2010-04-13 06:45
Nice, Humdinger! Also, beautiful job on the banner of your web site.
 


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