Specs for Aureal Vortex AU8820 (TB-Montego) ...

Specs for Aureal Vortex AU8820 (TB-Montego) ...

[David Jander]

Hi all,

I have a Turtle-Beach Montego sound card, and as I know there is only one
driver available for it by now: OSS-v3.9.1 which has several problems:
- DSP sounds ugly (Guess this is while the driver is in early Beta-stages)
- Not many functions supported (yet ?).
- It's a commercial driver (I like to look at the source-code, and I don't want
to pay for a badly written driver :-)
- OSS does not fully support my second Sound Card : a Crystal CS4237, so I need
to be able to run OSS and ALSA together (not a good idea if at all possible)

Does anyone know if the specs for this sound card (Chip) are publicly
available, or if there is any other driver available (or in the works) ?

Thanks in advance for any information ....

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David Jander J.                   |
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Re: Specs for Aureal Vortex AU8820 (TB-Montego) ...

[Peter Bortas]

David Jander <djander@alumnos.utfsm.cl> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Turtle-Beach Montego sound card, and as I know there is only one
> driver available for it by now: OSS-v3.9.1 which has several problems:
> - DSP sounds ugly (Guess this is while the driver is in early Beta-stages)
> - Not many functions supported (yet ?).
> - It's a commercial driver (I like to look at the source-code, and I don't want
> to pay for a badly written driver :-)
> - OSS does not fully support my second Sound Card : a Crystal CS4237, so I need
> to be able to run OSS and ALSA together (not a good idea if at all possible)
> 
> Does anyone know if the specs for this sound card (Chip) are publicly
> available, or if there is any other driver available (or in the works) ?

No, and not that I know of. I've only received automated responses to my 
request for docs.

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Re: Specs for Aureal Vortex AU8820 (TB-Montego) ...

[David Jander]

On Wed, 19 May 1999, you wrote:
>> Does anyone know if the specs for this sound card (Chip) are publicly
>> available, or if there is any other driver available (or in the works) ?
>
>No, and not that I know of. I've only received automated responses to my 
>request for docs.

Sad, but true ! 
Most important chip-manufacturers won't give away free specs on their chips.
But I still don't understand their point :-(
Maybe if we could gather more people interested in a free linux-driver, we
could make them change their minds. Just like, for example, NVidia. As I know,
after some pressure from the linux community, they finnaly decided to support
the development of Mesa and XF86 drivers for their Riva TNT series chips.
Although, I think we are already at a point of no return, since OSS has already
paid for information under a NDA, as I figured out talking to them.

Well, let me know if you're interested in pushing this a little more :-)

Regards,

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