is it true ?

is it true ?

[Gianmaria Collazuol]

is it true that the sb model Creative ViBRA16X PnP is only partially 
supported within linux and cannot work with 16 bits ? i.e. i'll 
never exploit full-duplex stuff !
thanks in advance for answers, cheers,
gianmaria

Re: is it true ?

[Paul]

It is true that the Vibra16X is NOT supported in full-duplex mode in Linux,
*BSD, or OSS commercial. This is because the Vibra16X is a strange cookie and
Creative Labs doesn't even appear to have documentation for this card (how the
hell they wrote a windows driver I don't know - Alan had a contact in C.L. a
few years ago and that guy couldn't find the needed docs). So we're SOL on
that
front. I've recently recieved one of these cards from a fellow Linux user in
Canada for the purpose of attempting to figure out full-duplex operation of
the
card and implementing it in Linux. I am currently (with some success) reverse
engineering the windows driver to figure out how it ticks. I'm keeping a
journal of my progress and will post to this list when I have something worth
talking about :)

Paul Laufer

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:05:56 Gianmaria Collazuol wrote:
> is it true that the sb model Creative ViBRA16X PnP is only partially 
> supported within linux and cannot work with 16 bits ? i.e. i'll 
> never exploit full-duplex stuff !
> thanks in advance for answers, cheers,
> gianmaria