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Subject: Recommendation for ALSA compat non-CreativeLabs PCI sound card?
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From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 08 Feb 1999 17:27:13 -0600
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We've got to buy some cards for our lab, and we were going to buy
SoundBlaster 128s which I've had good luck using ALSA with, but since
CreativeLabs has announced that they're only going to be
supporting/providing binary-only drivers for Linux (with development
under heavy NDA), we'd like to buy from someone else if there's
another manufacturer that's more open-source friendly.

Is there such a manufacturer?  We just need a good general purpose
card, and the most strenuous thing the cards will be used for is for
some speech recognition research.

Thanks in advance.

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

