On Wed, Apr 21, 1999, Joop Boonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It's it very sad if you read the flowing lines: (* SB Live!: Driver
> development started but still months away from beta due to no
> documentation. We are investigating some other mechanisms of developing
> the driver by means of reverse engineering and/or using PCI bus logic
> analyzers. Managed to get the AC97 mixers and the MIDI port working. So
> you can only hear AudioCDs and use the MPU401 MIDI port. No beta release
> dates available yet. *) This is a quote from the
> http://www.opensound.com/status.html site.
>
> It's very sad that some hardware producing companies. Aren't putting any
> effort in supporting Linux. It's sad enough that they aren't writing
> drivers and even sadder that they don't deliver data for people who want
> to write drivers. :-(
>
> Maybe there should be a mechanism that tells these hardware producers
> how many people are waiting for the drivers. Than they will know how big
> their market is. To be serious i want to buy a sound blaster live but as
> long as there is no driver for Linux i won't buy it. This shows how very
> grateful Creative labs should be that there are very enthusiastic people
> who are writing the drivers in spite of the obstruction of Creative
> labs.
Actually, Creative recently hired a Linux developer to develop drivers
for all of their products (soundcards and video) and will be releasing
binary old drivers sometime in the future.
JE
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