Sound Blaster Live (heads up Alan)
Quoted 16 lines · Trever Adams
I called Creative about the Live and got the run around. When I became frustrated I started pushing a bit harder. This is unofficial, but I never heard back from them, so I will speak what I was told. Creative bought out Emu.
The Live has an Emu chip as it's main component. One of the reasons at the point of my call (in late Sept I think) that no driver info was released was because Emu was still patenting parts of the chip. The person at Emu I heard this from suspected that info might be available once the patents were filed.
I hope this provides some useful background to whoever will contact Creative. Please note, I would give the name of the person I talked to, but I do not have permission, and they probably aren't the place you need to end up at.
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Trever Adams
P.S. Tech support is not the place to call, they have NO info and might not have functioning brains.-
As far as I was aware, Creative have always owned Emu. It was started up as the professional face of Creative Labs. The AWE64 has an Emu chip in it as well. BTW someone else mentioned S/PDIF- the AWE64 Gold has S/PDIF output, but I don't know whether or not it works under Linux, and I guess they might want digital-in so therefore the SBLive!. I believe the Terratec SW40-XL (or something, see www.terratec.de) also has a digital I/O system, and the new Yamaha board as well. As for Linux drivers for _those_ cards, I have no idea.
Creative seem to like their "privacy", but I guess they're not the only ones. It seems to be somewhat similar to the current video hardware market- the major players all desparately trying to get market share with their new-fangled chipsets, withholding the device specifications to use as a bargaining tool with the software houses. The amazing thing about the video situation was the way Linux enthusiasts persuaded Matrox to cooperate in developing an X server for the G200. If Creative could be persuaded that they were missing out on a huge number of sales, then just possibly they might lend a paw.
Is there anyone with the resources and motivation to set up a petition, or is there already one? Maybe we can crack the Creative Labs nut.
Cheers,
Mike
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just an FYI, Creative bought Ensoniq, who had put out a PCI
soundcard with all kinds of bells and whistles (including nastly legacy SB support, previously considered impossible from a PCI sound card). Creative then repackaged the card as (I think) SoundBlaster PCI and tacked $40 onto the price. God bless capitolism =)
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