From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932398AbVHWVkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:40:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932399AbVHWVkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:40:04 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:19893 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932398AbVHWVkD (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:40:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip From: Lee Revell To: Peter Zubaj Cc: James Courtier-Dutton , Takashi Iwai , Emmanuel Fleury , Linux Kernel , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <1124829672.3351.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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> <1124829672.3351.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:39:58 -0400 Message-Id: <1124833199.30517.23.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 21:41 +0100, Peter Zubaj wrote: > 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. I agree, but the fact is that the emu10k* devices own the Windows gamer market and like it or not these devices will sell millions of units, and they've worked perfectly in Linux for years. So these users have a reasonable expectation that Creative will provide them an upgrade path, just like they did for SBLive! -> Audigy1 and Audigy1 -> Audigy2. I'm not trying to pick a fight with Creative, but regardless of what I (or any Linux developer) does, there's going to be a fight if they try to lock out Linux users. Lee