Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Blaster Live 24-bit

[Gian P. M. <the...@sl...>]

Mike Tuller wrote:

> Well, not what I was hoping to hear. I have been trying with 4Front 
> Technologies too, and they say that it is supposed to work, but I have 
> not been able to get it to. I thought that if I bought a Creative card 
> I would be safe. I suppose at a later date.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2004, at 1:39 PM, TimO wrote:
>
>> James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>>
>>> Mike Tuller wrote:
>>>
>>>> I purchased a Sound Blaster Live 24-bit card the other day, and 
>>>> have not been able to get it to work with Mandrake 10.1 Community. 
>>>> I have tried everything I can think of. When I run alsaconf, the 
>>>> card does not show up. Has anyone been able to get this card to 
>>>> work with alsa 1.0.6?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mike Tuller
>>>>
>>> That card is currently not supported in linux.
>>> See current status on:
>>> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=audigyls
>>> Summary:
>>> My test version of the driver at least loads, but no-one has yet 
>>> confirmed if one gets any sound or not.
>>
>>
>> I currently have one of these cards reserving a pci slot in my 
>> computer.  Yep, that's all it's doing as sound goes out my old 
>> es1371.  The modules will load but, that's as far as it goes.  aplay, 
>> alsamixer, etc. all return with 'No Device'.  rmmoding the module 
>> oopes.  I have not saved/decoded any oopsen.
>>
>> Future status of this card is unknown beyond that it will likely be 
>> removed at the next scheduled reboot as it is not supported in Win98 
>> either and I don't have XP.(wow, what a run-on)  It may become an 
>> organ donor to an interested party.
>>
>> -- 
>> TimO
>>
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Yeah... I hate bad news... The traditional Live! chip and the Audigy and 
Audigy2 chips were similar (Emu10K1 and Emu10K2, respectively), and 
creative had already released an Open Sourced driver so work on those 
cards could "easily" be done. However, things have changed in the 
hardware aspects of the cards too and new specs and docs are needed to 
futhrer develop the drivers and increase compatiblity with new products 
from Creative. As far as I can tell, they (Creative) were going to 
release some key docmunentation to SuSE ALSA developers, under NDA. 
While the docs cannot be disclosed, the code generated by that knowledge 
can be GPL'ed, and as such used by the rest of the community. That was 
the last thing I heard about the current Creative situation (they are 
hoping, as far as I can tell, to also increase compatibility and add 
some key features, like Hardware Accelerated OpenAL support, amongst 
other things) . So for the time being these are indeed bad news, but I 
have faith that in the near future (hopefully by next major release of 
ALSA [1.0.8?]) code based on those documents will be already released.