On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:14:43 -0500 "Ted T. Logian" tedtheologian@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Any ideas?
Yes, just pay James Courtier-Dutton a lot of money to write a driver. If you're in the EMU or X-Fi camp, you should of moved on by now. Creative are providing NDA'd specs to the wrong person at ALSA. (See EMU 0202/0404, and now X-Fi support)
Don't bother contacting him either, it goes straight to /dev/null.
Bottom line, if one can't write a driver or don't have time, don't bother to NDA specifications okay? It just slows things down.
Furthermore Creative isn't going to pay someone to write a driver, so its not going to happen for a very long time, unless they decide to open the specs and stop the NDA junk.
Nobody with know-how has bothered to port the partially working oss4 driver to ALSA, so interest is quite low.