[alsa-devel] Will there ever be emu20k1/x-fi support in Alsa?

The Source thesourcehim at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 08:41:32 CEST 2008


That driver isn't too good unfortunately. No surround support, sample 
rate stuck at 96000Hz and is read-only (this makes apps that require 
explicit sample rate to fail to use sound), no pulse-audio compatibility 
(pulse-audio fails to load oss modules).

Ted T. Logian ?????:
> >From what I understand, they did not use creative code/license for the
> oss4 support, so I wouldn't see why not.
>
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 23:25 +0200, Sebastian Schneider wrote:
>
>   
>> Isn't it a question of the license? I mean is it allowed just to port the OSS Code with the Creative Part to Alsa?
>>
>>     
>>> I had to ask because oss4 has had emu20k1/x-fi support for a long time
>>> now.  However, it has the obvious limitations of oss4 and also you
>>> cannot use usb microphones, so I can't use skype which I'd really like
>>> to do.
>>>
>>>       
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