But how to get the specs? I doubt creative will give them freely to us. Unless that guy, who holds them, gives them away. Brendan Pike ?????: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:46:22 -0500 > "Ted T. Logian" <tedtheologian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Yes, but it is better than nothing, and perhaps some of that is a >> limitation of oss4:). >> >> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:41 +0400, The Source wrote: >> >> >>> That driver isn't too good unfortunately. No surround support, sample >>> rate stuck at 96000Hz and is read-only (this makes apps that require >>> explicit sample rate to fail to use sound), no pulse-audio compatibility >>> (pulse-audio fails to load oss modules). >>> >>> Ted T. Logian ?????: >>> >>>> >From what I understand, they did not use creative code/license for the >>>> oss4 support, so I wouldn't see why not. >>>> >>>> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 23:25 +0200, Sebastian Schneider wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Isn't it a question of the license? I mean is it allowed just to port the OSS Code with the Creative Part to Alsa? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> I had to ask because oss4 has had emu20k1/x-fi support for a long time >>>>>> now. However, it has the obvious limitations of oss4 and also you >>>>>> cannot use usb microphones, so I can't use skype which I'd really like >>>>>> to do. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> > > Porting the oss4 driver over to ALSA would be a start until someone > can get hold of the datasheets to make it a proper driver with > hardware mixing and all. Anyone up to the task that we can donate > money to buy hardware or actual hardware to? > > The newer PCIe EMU20K2 X-Fi Titaniums are the ones that are supposed to > have the intel-hda-audio backwards compatibility, but the older X-Fi's > based on the EMU20K1 do not. I guess this compatibility is a Vista > requirement so it appears on the new metal cladded X-Fi models. > > Then there's the "fake" X-Fi's based on the CA0106 that > are supported by ALSA already. Lets not confuse those. > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel > > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
