On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:46:22 -0500 "Ted T. Logian" tedtheologian@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, but it is better than nothing, and perhaps some of that is a limitation of oss4:).
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:41 +0400, The Source wrote:
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.
Porting the oss4 driver over to ALSA would be a start until someone can get hold of the datasheets to make it a proper driver with hardware mixing and all. Anyone up to the task that we can donate money to buy hardware or actual hardware to?
The newer PCIe EMU20K2 X-Fi Titaniums are the ones that are supposed to have the intel-hda-audio backwards compatibility, but the older X-Fi's based on the EMU20K1 do not. I guess this compatibility is a Vista requirement so it appears on the new metal cladded X-Fi models.
Then there's the "fake" X-Fi's based on the CA0106 that are supported by ALSA already. Lets not confuse those.