"Domsalla, Thorsten" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I think you must be right, Tim. Well, since SB-LIVE is STILL not
> > supported, I was wondering if anyone was successfully using the
>
> That's not correct anymore. With ALSA the SB!Live now is supported
> well. In SuSE Linux 6.2 it works fine!
>
> T. J.
I quote from http://www.alsa-project.org/black.html (the Black List):
"Creative released the driver for SB Live soundcard. This
driver is not supported by the ALSA team. We will ignore all
messages or questions about this driver.
Creative Labs, Inc does not want to release the source code or
programming documentation for SB Live soundcard.
Jacob Hawley from Creative Labs, Inc contacted me and we are
looking for some way how to develop the ALSA driver for the SB
Live soundcard.
I received many E-mails in last days, if Sound Blaster Live!
support will be added to ALSA drivers. Unfortunately Creative
Labs, Inc have not released programming datesheets for this
soundcard yet. It seems that they want sign from driver
developers some NDA licence which does not allow distribute
freely source code which is for us unacceptable (it simply
breaks the GPL licence under which is the ALSA driver
developed).
I'm sorry, people, but I see only black future for the Sound
Blaster Live! support in the ALSA driver at current time. I
strongly suggest buy some supported soundcard."
Creatives drivers are binary, worked only under 2.2.5-15 (RH6) [ until
recently when they recompiled for Suse2.2 at kernel 2.2.10], don't work
on SMP, and worst of all (to quote the Readme):
"Features
--------
- Open Sound System (OSS) compatible
- Full duplex wave playback/recording functionality (/dev/dsp)
- Simultaneous wave playback streams (/dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1)
- Analog mixer (AC97) support (/dev/mixer) (SBLive! only)
- Sound status reporting (/dev/sndstat)
- MIDI UART support (/dev/midi)
- Joystick interface support (>= 2.2.x kernels only)
- Supports multiple EMU10K1-based cards"
Note: NO MIDI SYNTH! This is a far cry indeed from the state of the AWE
drivers which support every function of the card. It would be a simple
thing to extend the awe drivers and programs we have to the EMU10001,
but NOOOOO, no help there from CL. Here's a good overview:
http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/
I have scoured the web looking for high end pci sound cards that are
good with windoze games but also good for the musician under linux.
Does anyone know what the best pci sound card fully supported under
linux is?
