Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

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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.

Peter Zubaj

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 17:54 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:38 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > We are not going to get any support from Creative for the X-Fi chip.
> > We do not get support from Creative for any Creative chip that has a
> > DSP in it. 
> 
> Well, except for the emu10k1 driver that Creative wrote and released
> years ago.  I don't see why they can't do something similar with the
> X-Fi stuff.  We don't need or expect the DSP programming docs, just the
> minimum to get sound in and out of the thing.
> 
> So do you expect Creative to leave thousands of emu10k1/emu10k2 Linux
> users with no upgrade path?  I think if they tried to do this we could
> make it a real PR nightmare for them.
> 
> Lee


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