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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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Subject: Re: SB Live! support
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On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:15:29AM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> > Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> > 
> > > I have a SB Live! lieing around. As it is not very useful for me (I don't
> > > use Windows if I can avoid it, and I can actually pretty well), I wonder how
> > > hard it would be to add support for it to the Alsa driver. This would
> > > enable me to test two card installations as well (SB 32 and SB
> > > Live!).
> > 
> > Marcus, did you get any feedback?  What I'd really like to see is just
> > support for the digital outputs.  Just that would be quite useful.
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Three people (four with you) have announced interest in SB Live! support,
> but nobody actually volunteered to do so or to guide me a bit. I am
> interesting in this, but I can't do it all alone. If someone of the more
> expereinced developers could tell me what is needed (which files to look at,
> what technical details to find out), I would do some hacking on my own (no,
> I don't need hand helding, just some bare information to start from).

Creative don't released datasheets for SoundBlaster Live and seems that
they want sign some NDA (to distribute only binaries) which seems to be
imposible in Linux world (this breaks GPL licence).

I currently see only black future for Linux SB Live drivers :-((((

Seems that drivers will be available only as binaries (this means that
they willn't work with each kernels). This is for me unacceptable.

							Jaroslav

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