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Subject: Re: Linux Sound Drivers 
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Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 14:25:57 -0300
From: Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@op.net>
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>Is some support for the Turtle Beach Maui planned, or is it
>fundamentely different from the other cards mentioned [e.g. does not
>have the WaveFront chip]?

The Maui is not part of the Multisound series, but part of the
WaveFront series, like the Tropez and the Tropez Plus. The big
difference is that the Maui has, as I understand it, no CODEC on
board, so it can't be used to dump digital sound data through it. its
just a wavetable synth.

The Maui has long been supported under Linux with OSS/Free (and by
implication the new modular OSS-derived sound drivers), but the
support wasn't particularly fantastic if you were interested in
programming the synth or using some its more interesting features.

As of Linux kernel 2.1.109 a version of my WaveFront driver (for the
modular sound drivers) has been a part of the standard kernel, and it
provides much greater support for the WaveFront cards.

The current version of the driver can always be found at:

    http://www.op.net/~pbd/wavefront.tar.gz

although a new version will be out any day now, and will hopefully be
in 2.1.121 or 2.1.122. 

>Then again, I'm probably the only Linux user with an Turtle Beach
>Maui, so I won't except it in the near and far future...

Far from it. I know of at least 2 others who are using my driver, and
there are undoubtedly more out there.

>Can the ALSA driver (SB16) be mixed with the OSS driver (Maui), or
>only by some hacking (OSS to another major device number and create
>some custom /dev devices)?

As mentioned on this list a few days ago, I plan to port my driver to
ALSA as soon as the CS4232 is supported under ALSA, since this is the
CODEC used by the Tropez and Tropez+, and is a prerequisite for my
driver (well, sort of).

--p

