Re: Vendor support in Alsa Drivers

[Pieter Palmers <pieterp@joow.be>]

Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:49:24 +0200
> Emmanuel Kasper <emmanuel@libera.cc> wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> With a couple of other french folks, we are building a kind of webshop
>> for Linux/FreeBSD compatible hardware. We will reference only devices
>> which work with a free driver, so no nvidia binary thingie or atheros HAL.
>> Based on the information found  on  the alsa wiki we plan to reference
>> the following sound devices:
>>
>> M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 (  snd-ice1712 driver )
>> Terratec AUREON 5.1
>> M-Audio Fast Track usb
>> Hercules Muse Pocket LT
>> Ion TTUSB usb turnable ( these 4 working with snd-usb-driver )
> 
> Add Echoaudio PCI and CARDBUS cards. They released the lowlevel part of
> their driver under the LGPL and the firmware in binary only form with the
> explicit permission to use it in the Linux kernel
> (http://echoaudio.com/Downloads/Developer.php). They were helpful and sent
> me a Gina3G when it was released. IIRC they also support the Freebob people
> for the Audiofire cards.

They did help out with the AudioFire's.

Greets,

Pieter Palmers
ffado.org