Messages in this thread |  | | From | machack <> | Subject | Re: Sound Blaster Live - OSS or Not? | Date | Mon, 3 Sep 2001 19:35:25 -0400 |
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I have been using the sblive kernel drivers for a year and have not had any problems with quake3. the driver in 2.4.9 works well for me except my mic doesn't' want to work.
On Monday 03 September 2001 07:03 pm, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have a Sound Blaster Live! PCI that works pretty fine for me. > > > > I tried to run loki's Quake 3 Arena for Linux, and after several tries, I > > started to read the README file, and it said that Sound Blaster Live does > > not work as OSS. I found a reference to www.opensound.com, where they > > sell OSS drivers for Sound Blaster Live for $35.00 !! That's too much > > money for a sound driver! I've downloaded a trial, and it really worked > > to play Quake. > > > > My question is: If the 2.4.9 kernel has support for Sound Blaster Live, > > why I have to pay for a damn non-GPL driver? Why it does not work to play > > games on linux? > > sound support is hard... The folks at 4-front have the benefit of a > liscense from the vendor for their intelectual property property used in > the driver... That has two implications, The code is proprietary, and the > vendor must be paid... I don't imagine they're getting rich in the > business but if you have a card that has a chipset that is supported well > by them and poorly by the various other sound initiatives, you have to > decide wether it's worth it or not. > > In any case your card is fairly well supported by the alsa-project... so > I'd recomend trying the alsa drivers > > > Regards, > > Thiago > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > > in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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