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SubjectRe: Sound Blaster Live - OSS or Not?
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,

Some persons are reporting problems with Q3 (which mmap's /dev/dsp)
and the latest emu10k1 driver. Others (like me) don't see any problems.
Under investigation.

What Q3 version are you using?
Can you send me a strace of the Q3 startup?

> and it said that Sound Blaster Live does not
> work as OSS.

The driver definetely follows the OSS specification. If a problem was
found at Loki then it would be nice to have a detailed bug report...


Rui Sousa

> 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?
>
>
> Regards,
> Thiago
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