From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932273AbVHWSh4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:37:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932274AbVHWSh4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:37:56 -0400 Received: from arkady.gaya.sk ([62.168.75.2]:12720 "EHLO arkady.gaya.sk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932273AbVHWSh4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:37:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip From: Peter Zubaj To: Lee Revell Cc: James Courtier-Dutton , Takashi Iwai , Emmanuel Fleury , Linux Kernel , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <1124747695.16064.46.camel@mindpipe> References: <4305AC77.3010907@cs.aau.dk> <1124491956.25424.95.camel@mindpipe> <4306D254.3000401@cs.aau.dk> <1124521688.26949.15.camel@mindpipe> <430A37B5.9050300@superbug.co.uk> <1124747695.16064.46.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:41:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1124829672.3351.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is too expensive card to be only able use it as simple card. My advice buy something else. I don't think fight with creative can bring anything good to linux. Leave Creative as is. There is plenty of other hardware from other manufacturer worth money. Peter Zubaj On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 17:54 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:38 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > We are not going to get any support from Creative for the X-Fi chip. > > We do not get support from Creative for any Creative chip that has a > > DSP in it. > > Well, except for the emu10k1 driver that Creative wrote and released > years ago. I don't see why they can't do something similar with the > X-Fi stuff. We don't need or expect the DSP programming docs, just the > minimum to get sound in and out of the thing. > > So do you expect Creative to leave thousands of emu10k1/emu10k2 Linux > users with no upgrade path? I think if they tried to do this we could > make it a real PR nightmare for them. > > Lee