This is an old theme that I believe bears repeating. I was reading the mini-howto on soundblasters and came across this: The SB AWE 64 has the capabilities of the SB AWE 32 and an additional Wave Guide synthesis Creative Labs is especially proud of. The problem for Linux users is, that the additional 32 voices are software generated and output via the raw wave devices. Because Creative Labs sees no market in Linux drivers, a Wave Guide synthesis sound driver is only available for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. Cane people think of a polite way to put pressure on folks such as Creative Labs to develop Linux drivers? It seems to me that Linux is poised to make a "quantum leap" into self configuration with PnP. It would be really nice if hardware manufactures took part in developing the software components for their products. As far as there not being a market, well I've spent over ten thousand dollars on computer equipment in my life and I am running linux on all my systems. (Yea, I do have NT partitions so I can learn things for work.) I would suggest an e-mail campaign, but that sound too much like spamming. Perhaps an internet petition form might be a good way to collect input to then send to hardware manufactures. Steve -- The linux counter: http://counter.li.org -Registered Linux User # 79059 S.u.S.E. Linux: http://www.suse.com KDE: http://www.kde.org SaMBa: http://samba.anu.edu.au Mathematica: http://www.wri.com StarOffice: http://www.stardivision.com I think. I think I am, Therefore I am. I think? - Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues
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