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From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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Subject: Re: SB Live! support
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On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 03:18:19PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> 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.

Hi Jaroslav!

I too think this is inacceptable. How much can be achieved by guessing? It's
too bad that the SB Live! is a PCI card and therefore incompatible to all
prior CT Labs card, but isn't it possible to find out the information we
need by looking at the card and try and fail?

Please bear with me if this is near to impossible. I don't know too much
about hardware, so I don't know what is involved in such a procedure.

Thanks,
Marcus

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