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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
To: Adam Scislowicz <core@triron.net>
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Adam Scislowicz wrote:

> Sorry to bother you all with this, but I saw mention that someone from
> creative labs was wanting to work out a way for the SBLive to gain driver
> support from ALSA? is there any more information, how soon could this happen?

Look to http://alsa.jcu.cz/black.html for current SB Live status.
Unfortunately Jacob Hawley don't send me any other e-mail about possible
SB Live support in ALSA. I think that we are in dead state - Creative
is looking for a Linux programmer which will probably port W$ code to
Linux and they probably didn't found someone to this time.

> Also I would really appreciate it if someone could add DEVFS support to ALSA,
> it will most likely be included in the standard kernel very soon, it would
> require the devices to be kept in /dev/sound though, which is much cleaner,
> and really since ALSA is still fairly new, not all that many apps need to be
> patched, and the patch would be very small... Symlinks could be maintained for
> a few months to keep compatibility...

We have already placed devices in /dev/snd directory and DEVFS support is
planned soon as it will be included to kernel.

								Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
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