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

[The Source]

But how to get the specs? I doubt creative will give them freely to us. 
Unless that guy, who holds them, gives them away.

Brendan Pike ?????:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:46:22 -0500
> "Ted T. Logian" <tedtheologian at 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.
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