From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amaury Jacquot Subject: Re: Firewire Audio Card Support Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:44:36 +0100 Message-ID: <419CB554.3080709@esitcom.org> References: <31148074.1100630541337.JavaMail.root@scooter.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <419C9D47.4090606@x-i.net> <200411181515.52218.olaf@solutionworks.de> <20041118143205.GA21282@login.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041118143205.GA21282@login.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Steve Harris Cc: linux-audio-user@music.columbia.edu, linux-audio-dev@music.columbia.edu, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Steve Harris wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:15:52 +0100, Olaf Christ wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>as the owner of a firewire audio card (Motu 828mkII) I was disappointed when >>trying to use it under linux. Asking Motu to provide tech docs and/or linux >>drivers is useless: "We will possibly release linux drivers in the future, >>but we never release any kind of technical documentation." > > > That is actually a big improvemnt. When we (linuaudio.org) were demoing at > Sounds Live in London earlier this year, the were telling thier users that > they had no intention of supporting linux, and wouldn't release docs. > > Though with the number of thier users we were sending to them to ask, I > guess they were getting a bit concerned :) > > - Steve what's the rationale behind the "we won't release any docs" nonsense ? someone needs to come out with a professionnal libre-design sound card... (can't be that hard) Amaury ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8