[Kde-hardware-devel] new member

[Vikram Dhillon]

Thanks for replying, I would like to get started with sound drivers. One
thing I will say is that I haven't done this before, so I really appreciate
you guys helping me out. I am going to check out the source for solid and
then look at it. Also I will go to the website and get some information
about the project.

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Regards,
Vikram

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Will Stephenson <wstephenson at kde.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Vikram
>
> I'm fine, thank you for asking.
>
> Solid itself does not consist of classical 'device drivers' that talk to
> the
> hardware.  It's more of an interface layer that talks to various platforms'
> system software that talk to the drivers that talk to the hardware.
>
> That doesn't mean there isn't anything to do - there are certainly bugs to
> fix
> in Solid itself, as well as work in other parts of KDE to talk to various
> types of devices - webcams (see the Kamoso app), sound cards (improving
> Phonon
> backends), networking (ie 3G support) as well as improving the hardware
> related UI for things like automounting.  So choose an area of hardware
> support in KDE that you are excited about and we'll point you in the right
> direction to help with it.
>
> HTH
>
> Will
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