On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:56 -0500, William W. Austin wrote: > I am thinking about building another machine for "fun and games" (to > replace an aging machine that will replace the older firewall box > here). > > In particular I heard demos this weekend directly comparing the Audigy > card that I'm now using with an X-Fi card (specifically the PC Express > X-Fi Soundblaster Titanium card). I was really impressed. But trying > to read through all of the FC9 documentation (both in the distro and > on-line blogs, etc.) I cannot tell if this card should work on FC9. (Or > on the upcoming FC10). > > Does anyone have any information on this one? I have tried the > archives, but searching on all of the permutations of X-Fi, XFI, etc. > have not helped. > > Please feel free to answer off-line if you don't want to waste > everyone's bandwidth. > > Thanks > -- Hi, Don't get the X-Fi. Long story short: Since the introduction of the X-Fi, Creative refused to release the specs of cards, claiming that it will release binary drivers ASAP. Creative did eventually release beta drivers, but they sucked... badly. A couple of months ago, Creative capitulated and started releasing partial documentation to the OSS project. ALSA is working on a preliminary driver for the X-Fi, which may appear in next major ALSA release. (Notice the may part) In short, don't touch this card with 10 ft pole. Come to think about it - if you're looking for best Creative card, scour ebay for a used Audigy 2ZS. (I did; The so-called Audigy 4 value is nothing more that a el-cheapo software card with numerous limitations..) - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
