From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe support
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:10:06 +0200
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nidujay wrote:
> I've got a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe sound card which I
> purchased for the following 2 reasons:
> 
> 1. It supports sound fonts

Not in Linux.

> 2. I require an SPDIF optical input

Apparently not supported in Linux.

The driver was written by Creative, and they obviously don't bother to
extend it to support all hardware features.

> Any idea what I can do?

Don't buy Creative.


Regards,
Clemens