15 Jun
2005
15 Jun
'05
1:21 a.m.
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 12:32 +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 11:17, Lee Revell wrote:
There's no point in asking them for register info now because we don't
exactly know what we need, it would just make us look like amateurs.
Let's wait and see what we can figure out with some hardware in hand,
then ask them something.
Lee
An EMU rep has informed me that they have agreed
to provide the ALSA
project (specifically James) with a hardware sample. They don't seem to
think we'll have much luck reverse engineering a driver. We'll just see
about that.
They mention that they won't be able to dedicate any development
resources to it anytime soon, which makes sense given the widely
reported issues with the Windows driver. The message implied that they
might consider releasing some docs or (IMHO more likely) register info,
but we'd have to make a convincing argument.
Has anyone ever tried to figure out how many Linux audio users there
are?
One approach might be for people who would buy this card if it was
supported under Linux (or people who have bought it and want a Linux
driver) to email the vendor and *politely* ask that they dedicate the
resources to this. They're not going to do it just for the hell of it,
but if there's sales in it, they might.