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Re: openal future
by Yvan Vander Sanden
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2009/5/4 Jason Daly <jdaly@...>:
> Sven Panne wrote:
>>
>> After that, the card works, but only in a very, very basic way. I see only
>> a few inputs and only stereo output, the front module is not working at all,
>> etc.
Well, if it's only stereo, i'm not even going to bother installing it.
It's the surround i need. I bought this card because there was an
open source driver on the creative website. If they'd mentioned 'we
have a linux driver available but it doesn't work very good and not on
every card' I would not have bought that card. So I feel a bit tricked
about that.
> What's really interesting to me is how the driver has been received by the
> open source community. After all of the whining and complaining that the
> open source driver community has done in the past about binary blob drivers,
> Creative has finally released a fully open source driver for the X-Fi (maybe
> it's not feature-complete, but the source is all there for people to hack
> on, and data sheets have been released to the community as well). This
> happened in November, so it's been six months.
Now that's not really fair. But it's still creative that promised to
support Linux since the card was around. After 2 years, they come up
with a driver that works only on some 64 bit systems and is not very
good. Half a year later, there's a half baked open source driver on
their website and information has been passed to the community. And
then, suddenly, it's not Creative's fault anymore that there isn't a
decent driver, but the open source community??
I don't know what is going on either. But it's a matter of
responsibility. If you give some information to a group of volunteers
that's great, but it does not bind them to do the work in your place.
The better if they do, but it's still the company (creative) that
promised to provide a linux driver.
Regards,
yvan
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> Sven Panne wrote:
>>
>> After that, the card works, but only in a very, very basic way. I see only
>> a few inputs and only stereo output, the front module is not working at all,
>> etc.
Well, if it's only stereo, i'm not even going to bother installing it.
It's the surround i need. I bought this card because there was an
open source driver on the creative website. If they'd mentioned 'we
have a linux driver available but it doesn't work very good and not on
every card' I would not have bought that card. So I feel a bit tricked
about that.
> What's really interesting to me is how the driver has been received by the
> open source community. After all of the whining and complaining that the
> open source driver community has done in the past about binary blob drivers,
> Creative has finally released a fully open source driver for the X-Fi (maybe
> it's not feature-complete, but the source is all there for people to hack
> on, and data sheets have been released to the community as well). This
> happened in November, so it's been six months.
Now that's not really fair. But it's still creative that promised to
support Linux since the card was around. After 2 years, they come up
with a driver that works only on some 64 bit systems and is not very
good. Half a year later, there's a half baked open source driver on
their website and information has been passed to the community. And
then, suddenly, it's not Creative's fault anymore that there isn't a
decent driver, but the open source community??
I don't know what is going on either. But it's a matter of
responsibility. If you give some information to a group of volunteers
that's great, but it does not bind them to do the work in your place.
The better if they do, but it's still the company (creative) that
promised to provide a linux driver.
Regards,
yvan
--
Copyright only exists in the imagination of those who do not have any.
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