22 Oct
2002
22 Oct
'02
6:11 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Taybin Rutkin [mailto:trutkin@physics.clarku.edu]
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, STEFFL, ERIK (SBCSI) wrote:
and which are those? I know of no way to get information about how
good/complete the alsa driver is. I have read number of thread on various
mailing lists/forums etc. about which cards to use (for different purposes)
and I didn't find any useful information... The docs at alsa site are pretty
much useless for this purpose (as far as I can tell).
BTW creative provides some linux support. Plus the sound matrix at
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ doesn't say there are problems getting
docs from manufacturer.
except of the blocking of sounds (the problem
mentioned
above) I am quite
dissapointed by functionality of linux drivers I
have
tried, I have sb live
platinum and (last time I checked):
Maybe you should buy cards from companies that care about
Linux support. You seem to be forgetting that most of the drivers are
written by
volunteers working without documentation.
no I don't. I am not saying somebody should go and fix my problems. I was
just ranting because I am frustrated and I hope it will provide semi-useful
feedback to somebody... (and somebody will go and fix my problems:-)
possibly... and we were talking about acceptance of linux audio.
erik
23 Oct
23 Oct
2:09 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] hel p for a levelmeter]
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:07:22PM -0500, STEFFL, ERIK (SBCSI) wrote:
BTW creative provides some linux support.
Heh, no, they don't. They've provided a paper on an FX8010, a chip
that the emu10k1 "implements" or something, and they released some register
info, and that's it. Basically, afaict, what happened was that some linux
geeks at creative wrote a driver and creative decided to release it under a
load of fanfare about them loving opensource. They put up a site,
http://opensource.creative.com, and then they went back to doing what they
were doing. The geeks are still at creative. They still care about linux.
But they have managers who don't give a flying fuck, and unfortunately
they're the ones that make the decisions. Try emailing creative's techinal
support people about linux and see how much "support" you get. To quote an
email from one of the said linux geeks:
"it is the position of my management that we will not release the full
specification of the chip because doing so will reveal intellectual
property to our competitors."
Don't you just *love* that intellectual property stuff :)
I bought a creative card. I kick myself for doing so.
Plus the sound matrix at
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ doesn't say there are problems getting
docs from manufacturer.
Perhaps someone should add a note.
Bob
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