From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brendan Pike Subject: Re: Will there ever be emu20k1/x-fi support in Alsa? Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:59:27 -0400 Message-ID: <20081005215927.3a907b59@darius> References: <1223248483.19560.9.camel@home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.spykes.net (dsl.spykes.net [76.10.173.13]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1313224340 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 03:59:28 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1223248483.19560.9.camel@home> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:14:43 -0500 "Ted T. Logian" wrote: > I had to ask because oss4 has had emu20k1/x-fi support for a long time > now. However, it has the obvious limitations of oss4 and also you > cannot use usb microphones, so I can't use skype which I'd really like > to do. > > Any ideas? Yes, just pay James Courtier-Dutton a lot of money to write a driver. If you're in the EMU or X-Fi camp, you should of moved on by now. Creative are providing NDA'd specs to the wrong person at ALSA. (See EMU 0202/0404, and now X-Fi support) Don't bother contacting him either, it goes straight to /dev/null. Bottom line, if one can't write a driver or don't have time, don't bother to NDA specifications okay? It just slows things down. Furthermore Creative isn't going to pay someone to write a driver, so its not going to happen for a very long time, unless they decide to open the specs and stop the NDA junk. Nobody with know-how has bothered to port the partially working oss4 driver to ALSA, so interest is quite low.