[nas] NAS 1.8a (devel) is available

Jon Trulson jon at radscan.com
Mon Nov 27 13:57:45 MST 2006


  at the usual places: http://radscan.com/nas.html
                       svn://radscan.com/nas/tags/nas-1.8a

  This version includes much improved mixer support, large scale code
  ANSIfication and cleanup, GNU/kFreeBSD support and a variety of other
  fixes.

  NOTE: Prior to this revision, the mixer device parameter for the input
        section was completely ignored.  The default value for this
        ignored parameter was "/dev/mixer1".

        With this revision, this parameter is honored.  If your
        configuration depends on the input mixer being the same as the
        output mixer, you will need to edit your /etc/nas/nasd.conf and
        set the mixer parameter in the inputsection to '/dev/mixer', or
        to whatever mixer device your outputsection is using.

        If your system contains a /dev/mixer1 device (the default input
        mixer device), nasd will now use it.  This is a good thing. :)

  The HISTORY snippet is a bit long, though worth the read - at least
  concerning the mixer changes and new options in nasd.conf.

Version 1.8a (devel) 11/27/2006

         - Updated the Amd.h (machine definition file) with modern X11
           (X11R6.8) contents so it can build with Qt and other X11
           software that makes use of X11's Xmd.h header file.  Problem
           reported by Bernard Leak.

         - ANSI'fication of DeleteTypes (dia/resource.c) and NoopDDA.
           Add proper header #includes where needed.

         - patch from Petr Salinge (via Steve McIntyre) adding
           GNU/kFreeBSD support.

         - Patches from Paul Fox:

           - allow the specification of a scaling factor to apply to
             the output gain

           - add a proper return value in auvoxware.c:initMixer()

           - mondo indentification of server/*

         - Applied patches from Stefan Huehner:

           - marks some read-only string and function parameters as
             'const char*' instead of 'char *'. In addition an unused
             buffer 'errfile' from aulog.c was removed.  As the two
             release.h files are generated the NetAudio.tmpl was
             modified to emit the 'const char *' declaration.

           - part two of the _.*Const removal patch. Some more defines
             of _.*Const were removed which have been missed by the
             last patch and the interval usage of _.*Const has been
             simplified to just use const.

           - removes more unused defines and functions in server/ .
             Additionally a k&r style function was convertd to ansi c
             in swaprep.c

           - converts more function declarations and their prototypes
             without parameters from () to the (void) form

           - attached patch changes all of the conditional
             i.e. _AuConst definitions to only list const in the
             externally visible header files. This is to preserve
             compatibility if someone uses these definitions while
             using the libaudio library.

             [JET] The use of AuConst is deprecated (and is probably
             not being used by anyone anyway).

           - removes the defined VENDOR_STRING and VENDOR_RELEASE from
             server/include/site.h as they aren't used in the 3 files
             including site.h.  Additionally the inclusions of site.h
             was removed from server/dia/main.c as none of its defines
             is used in main.c

           - removes the 2 unused functions:

             - server/dia/dispatch.c: void UpdateCurrentTime()
             - server/dia/dixutils.c: TimeStamp ClientTimeToServerTime

             and it changes one more occurence of () to (void).

           - corrects some function declarations by changing () to
             (void)

           - removes some unsued variables in lib/audio/nameaddr.c and
             and unused function in server/os/utils.c

           - removed some old (and stupid) debug code for AIX: in
             server/os/utils.c there is some code to redirect error
             logging from stderr to and file in tmp on AIXV3. As
             OpenDebug isn't called anywhere this is broken when AIXV3
             is defined. Additionally this logfile is fixed in /tmp
             which permissions 00777

           - removed the declaration of FreeResource from the opaque.h
             header file. All files which include opaque.h don't use
             this function and this declaration is copied from
             resource.h

           - corrects several prototypes in resource.[ch] to match the
             actual function definitions inside resource.c

           - patch that modifies the two users of ostruct.h to directly
             include os.h (which includes misc.h) and removes the
             osstruct.h line in config/filelist. If an additional "svn
             remove server/include/osstruct.h" is used we can get rid
             of osstruct.h completely.

           - removes servermd.h. removes the inclusion of servermd.h in
             3 files and its reference in 'config/filelist'.

           - clean up several of the client programs. Mostly adding
             const to parameter/variable declarations. Additionally an
             unsused variable was removed and some prototype in
             audemo.c were fixed.

           - remove some unused variables

           - remove server/include/miscstruct.h

           - various include file cleanups - removing unused
             variables/structures, etc left over from X11.

           - removing old 'const' determination, correcting some proper
             uses of const.  'const' is expected to be supported by
             your compiler.

           - ANSIfication of various NAS components.

           - remove unused portion of X11 server components (fonts,
             GC's, etc).

         - applied patches from Erik Auerswald:

           - Add patch adding a proper 'reset' action to
             contrib/rc/nasd.

           - a patch that:

             Adds support for a different mixer for the input device to
             the voxware server. Without this patch the mixer device
             specified in the input section of the config file is not
             used.

             To use the same mixer for input and output just specify
             the same device in the input- and output-section of the
             config file. The empty string "" can be used to specify no
             mixer device for the input- or output-section.  This is
             documented in the nasd.conf man page.

             The outputsection keyword is added to the nasd.conf man
             page.

             fixed a bug in the support of two devices: If two devices
             are used, and the sample rate of the input device can be
             changed, the wrong sample size would be set by
             openDevice().

             remove the unused "stereodevs" variable.

             NOTE: Prior to this patch, the mixer device parameter for
                   the input section was completely ignored.  The
                   default value for this ignored parameter was
                   "/dev/mixer1".

                   With this patch, this parameter is honored.  If your
                   configuration depends on the input mixer being the
                   same as the output mixer, you will need to edit your
                   /etc/nas/nasd.conf and set the mixer parameter in
                   the inputsection to '/dev/mixer', or to whatever
                   mixer device your outputsection is using.

                   If your system contains a /dev/mixer1 device (the
                   default input mixer device), nasd will now use it.
                   This is a good thing. :)

           - preserve configuration of input device in the voxware
             server when ReleaseDevice is on, and no flow is active.

           - document nasd '-V' option in the man page

           - opening the mixer device should be allowed to fail
             according to
             http://radscan.com/nas/nas-ml/msg01121.html. But right now
             it may only fail on startup, not when re-opening the audio
             device. The attached patch corrects this issue.

           - adding an option to aupanel to specify the initially
             controlled device.

           - keeping gain and input mode changes consistent between
             voxware server and mixer if possible.

           - changing recording level controls of the voxware server
             to use IGain or RecLev when available and select only
             the specified recording source.

           - fixing MixerInit option of the voxware server.

           - Adding a KeepMixer option (on by default) that causes NAS
             to always keep the mixer device open so it can track
             external changes to mixer settings.

           - patch adding ReInitMixer option that init's the mixer to
             defaults every time nasd re-opens the audio device.

           - patches ANSI'fying the nas clients

           - extending the gainScale functionality to apply to the
             input gain as well.


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Jon Trulson
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