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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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