Re: [LAU] status usb2 for sound

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Arnold Krille schrieb: And even if you only need the 2 channels USB1 can provide easily you wont find any USB1-Device on the shelf. The vendors build everything in USB2 - just because it is there and they don not want to discuss consumer-questions like "What?! USB1 only - and I shall pay more then 20 for such an antique piece of equipment?". So these big beasts seem to be the only alternative... I can only hope, that the distributors wake up and put some of their big-company-weight (and errrmm maybe some of their money?) into that. But they seem to be totally unaware of something like a need for pro-audio-support for Linux. - What a misconception! Every OS out there that qualifies as "full grown" offers support for everything any user today does on a PC. MS and Apple do not ignore audio-needs just because audio-producers are only a small percentage of the userbase. The SuseAG showed some insight on this as they put the alsa-people on their payroll and set up a certified-for-linux programme for multimedia-devices that made Linux visible to companies like Terratec. As a result we now have perfect support for envy24-cards. But NOVELL cut these efforts. And other distributors, that proudly claim "We love the desktop-user!"? They do not much more than to gracefully accept a halfhearted integration of the unpaid efforts of free devs in the backyards of their repos... I really wonder what can be done to change this...