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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:06:52 +0400,
The Source wrote:
> 
[Could you please stop top-posting?]

> About multi playback: look at the latest codes from their mercurial repo 
> - vmix with 4 PCMs was restored there.

And we have dmix.
My point is about the hardware multi-playback support.


Takashi

> Takashi Iwai ?????:
> > At Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:46:22 -0500,
> > Ted T. Logian wrote:
> >   
> >> Yes, but it is better than nothing, and perhaps some of that is a
> >> limitation of oss4:).
> >>     
> >
> > Just looking at their code, and I can conclude it's a half-baked
> > driver, indeed.  Fixed rate, no full duplex, no multi playback, no
> > multi channel, etc, etc.
> >
> > OTOH, it's pretty easy to port right now because of its shortness.
> > More comprehensive be more longer codes.
> >
> > OK, if the code is that long, I'll try to port as experimental.
> > It's always good to have a reference at the beginning.
> > Maybe it'll take one or two days...  Will inform you when it's ready.
> >
> > Note that I have neither XFi hardware nor datasheet, so someone brave
> > has to test it :)
> >      
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> >   
> >> 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.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>>             
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