Re: [Alsa-user] Recommended USB sound card?

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 07:30 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote:
> The problem with the M-Audio cards is M-Audio's total unwillingness to
> help Linux. Laditch figured out how to load the Transit's firmware
> onto the card, but a bug in the Linux usb code meant that in his
> loader, the usb bus crashed when it was reset after loading the
> firmware onto the Transit. I figured out how to get around this
> (www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/transit.html)
> but with the latest 2.6 kernels that usb bug seems to have been
> fixed.  

Um, I was under the impression that M-Audio has helped Linux by
providing hardware specs and/or driver code.  Are you saying all the
drivers were reverse engineered?

Lee