12 May
2008
12 May
'08
7:26 p.m.
I was surprised to find that the driver listing on
http://www.alsa-project.org was blank for the Lynx cards. Is that
really true? There are no drivers for Lynx cards?
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Lynx_Studio_Techno…
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Brad Fuller
www.bradfuller.com
12 May
12 May
7:54 p.m.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was surprised to find that the driver listing on
http://www.alsa-project.org was blank for the Lynx cards. Is that
really true? There are no drivers for Lynx cards?
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Lynx_Studio_Techno…
Probably, I haven't heard of any. Ask the vendor.
Lee
8:29 p.m.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Brad Fuller
<bradallenfuller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Bummer. There are, of course, drivers for Win/OSX. Nothing on alsa nor
on their site for linux.
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Brad Fuller
www.bradfuller.com
I was surprised to find that the driver listing
on
http://www.alsa-project.org was blank for the Lynx cards. Is that
really true? There are no drivers for Lynx cards?
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Lynx_Studio_Techno…
Probably, I haven't heard of any. Ask the vendor. 
13 May
13 May
5:36 a.m.
Dnia 2008-05-12, pon o godzinie 14:25 -0700, Brad Fuller pisze:
I was surprised to find that the driver listing on
http://www.alsa-project.org was blank for the Lynx cards. Is that
really true? There are no drivers for Lynx cards?
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Lynx_Studio_Techno…
Hi, just my 2 cents
About 2 years ago I wanted to use lynx aes 16 in Linux. I asked the
vendor about the drivers, they said there are no drivers and they are
not planning to write them for such a niche system. I asked for the
specs to make the drivers and they said it's their intellectual property
and they refused to give the specs away.
After that I tried to reverse engineer their windows driver with kind of
a success - I was able to produce sound under linux. I think the driver
would work for other lynx cards, because the windows driver seemed to be
the same for all with small branches in code here and there to handle
differencies. The status of my driver is that I lost interest in it and
it's well unfinished (though it's kind of a proof that it is feasible to
do it w/o the specs)
best regards,
Michael Kostrzewa
1:20 p.m.
That's good to know, Michael. Are you willing to pass the source on to
ALSA for someone to take up the gauntlet?
Thought I'd pass along an email Lynx sent me:
"Hello,
OSS drivers are available now (see www.opensound.com) that have been
developed by 4Front Technologies. We have no plans for releasing
information for ALSA drivers.
Thank you,
Lynx Studio Technology, Inc.
www.lynxstudio.com
"
I guess /www.opensound.com/ comprises a couple of companies. If you
finagle your way around on the left menu (it's very confusing ) a link
evenutally pops up that lists the LynxTWO driver available for
purchase only (see bottom):
http://manuals.opensound.com/devlists/Linux.html
It appears that the cost for OSS is $49.99 (I assume that includes the
few drivers that are not free.)
Seems reasonable to charge if they are offsetting costs from Lynx,
IMO, but the price is kinda high.
I'd rather see 4Front develop ALSA drivers.
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Brad Fuller
www.bradfuller.com
14 May
14 May
4:06 a.m.
Dnia 2008-05-13, wto o godzinie 08:19 -0700, Brad Fuller pisze:
That's good to know, Michael. Are you willing to
pass the source on to
ALSA for someone to take up the gauntlet?
Hi, well I think so if I find some time to find them :) it was really
long time ago... also the important thing is the internal data
structures and PCI communication I discovered - I'm not sure if I
documented it anyhow :(( or if my notes would be understandable to
anyone. I'll try to find what I have anyway.
I wish I had some time to finish it, because I remember it was quite a
fun 'reversing' it.
OSS drivers are available now (see www.opensound.com)
that have been
developed by 4Front Technologies. We have no plans for releasing
information for ALSA drivers.
Thanks for sharing that. I may not remember things correctly, but I
think when I was asking them, they answered that the OSS drivers would
be available soon. It's good to know that there is this OSS thing ready
- it is additional source of great info for reverse engineering :)
best regards,
Michael Kostrzewa
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