Hi their. I'm a little confused here. According to the driver, its released under the GPL. In any event, what's the best way to get the device functional under this new kernel? I see their's a alsa-source ppackage here, but not sure if the binary firmware was removed. O nO ed, 24 Sep 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:31:11 +0200 > From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Subject: Re: Debianized 2.6.26 Kernel > > Hello, > > Erik Heil, le Wed 24 Sep 2008 08:09:35 -0400, a ?crit : > > Hi their. Sorry I wasn't clearer here. The module in question, which is > > contained in the 2.6.18-speakup enabled package is the SND_cs46xx module. > > Ah, ok, Cirrus now makes sound boards :) > > See the debian 2.6.23 changelog: > * Remove binary only firmwares for: > ... > - Cirrus Logic (Sound Fusion) CS4280/CS461x/CS462x/CS463x > > I.e. Debian dropped the driver because there are parts of it (the > firmware) which are not free. That is not likely to change until the > firmware gets freed. > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > eheil at sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
