Re: SB live card

Re: SB live card

[Kristian Soerensen]

On Sat, 1 May 1999, Matt Hall wrote:

> 
> : They aren't backwards compatible with any card for
> : which there is a driver for Linux and there's no driver
> : for the Live! itself yet.
> 
> : Creative says on their webpages that the Linux driver
> : for the Live! is under development, and OSS recently
> : told me that they are trying to get the neccesary information
> : from Creative so they can start making a driver.
> 
> Breaking news here...  I just saw on slashdot that Creative has released
> binary drivers for the SB live! on their FTP site.
> 
> ftp://ftp.soundblaster.com/pub/creative/beta/sblive-0.1b.tar.gz
> 
> --matt

yiiipeeeeeiiiii

That was good new indeed. 
Creative have even set up a Linux development page at
http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ and made a mailinglist for Linux
related Creative news, subscription information is at the webpage.

Have anyone tried the driver yet?
The Live! value I got with my new Linux PC at work was promptly swapped
with an AWE64 in a windozzzz machine so I cannot test it myself at the
moment.

I'm especially interested in the optical Toslink in/out on the non Value
version of the card. 

As soon as that's working I'm buying such a card for my home, so I can
finally get all my music as MP3's on a harddrive, so i can listen to
whatever I want, in whatever order I want it to appear, and completely
forget about handling small boxes or round things whenever I want to hear
music. 

I already have an optical Toslink fibre running from the digital output of
a Pioneer CDROM drive to a HiFi grade DAC that's connected to a normal
stereo system.

I want a fibre from the Linux box to the DAC by the amp so I can place
them wherever I want and listen to MP3 and ra in top quality, and I want a
fibre running the other way (the DAC unit does also include an ADC) so I
can record audio from the turntable, cassette player or radio as MP3's
without loosing any quality.

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