At Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:54:58 +0000, Pieter Palmers wrote: > > Why don't we support the manufacturers that do support us? After all, > there are some that provide us with what we need, and I don't see that > mentioned that often. I'm quite confident that for most needs you can > find a card from a manufacturer that supports ALSA development. Correct > me if I'm wrong, but I got the impression that for example RME and ESI > actively support the development of ALSA drivers for their producs. Well, the ALSA support shall be achieved sooner or later :) But it's true that there is still a significant gap between the product release and the support on Linux. Once people recognize the importance of Linux desktop, this gap will be decreaed, I guess. My biggest concern is the chaos like what has happend on USB audio/midi (or look at ACPI). I really hope such a theatrical confusion won't happen on fireware audio. The precised specification doesn't always lead to a good result :) Takashi
