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Re: openal future
by Jason Daly
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Yvan Vander Sanden wrote:
I can hear your sarcasm :-) Still, unsupported means exactly that. You're buying at your own risk.
It's good practice to get feedback on any device and support before making a purchase, even with a Windows product. I've had terrible experiences with things like video capture cards (particularly with the lack of quality drivers). This problem isn't limited to Linux (although I agree it does seem to occur far more often there).
They announced a driver, but there was never any promise or guarantee of full, commercial support for it. Even when I read that announcement, I never expected anywhere near the support that the Windows drivers and apps get. To think otherwise would be naive to me. Maybe I've just been at this long enough to know what to expect, so when things like this happen I'm not so disappointed as newer folks might be.
I know what you're saying, though. Like most people, I was disappointed at what was eventually provided (especially the fact that no native OpenAL implementation ever came out). Most likely what happened is that they underestimated the scope of the task (writing a full-featured driver for hardware that complex has to be a big job). This is probably why the driver was late, and when it did finally come out, it was severely lacking (x64 and 2.4 kernels only, among other things).
Commercial support for Linux drivers is unfortunately hard to come by. Nvidia doesn't officially support their graphics drivers in Linux either (even though their support is generally pretty good). It'll be a long time before this changes. Maybe you understand why I'm rooting so much for the open-source driver now :-)
--"J"
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You see unsupported drivers for linux quite a lot. So if I check for an available driver on the companies website before I buy the hardware, that's now not enough anymore. I should also check forums to see if the announced driver is actually any good. Ok, I'll have to remind that.
I can hear your sarcasm :-) Still, unsupported means exactly that. You're buying at your own risk.
It's good practice to get feedback on any device and support before making a purchase, even with a Windows product. I've had terrible experiences with things like video capture cards (particularly with the lack of quality drivers). This problem isn't limited to Linux (although I agree it does seem to occur far more often there).
Creative never promised anything of the kind. I've met a couple of the Creative folks personally, and there was never any business decision made to support Linux.The internet archive shows otherwise. Of course you won't see the announcement nowadays, but they promised one in 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20061214142854/http://opensource.creative.com/
They announced a driver, but there was never any promise or guarantee of full, commercial support for it. Even when I read that announcement, I never expected anywhere near the support that the Windows drivers and apps get. To think otherwise would be naive to me. Maybe I've just been at this long enough to know what to expect, so when things like this happen I'm not so disappointed as newer folks might be.
I know what you're saying, though. Like most people, I was disappointed at what was eventually provided (especially the fact that no native OpenAL implementation ever came out). Most likely what happened is that they underestimated the scope of the task (writing a full-featured driver for hardware that complex has to be a big job). This is probably why the driver was late, and when it did finally come out, it was severely lacking (x64 and 2.4 kernels only, among other things).
Commercial support for Linux drivers is unfortunately hard to come by. Nvidia doesn't officially support their graphics drivers in Linux either (even though their support is generally pretty good). It'll be a long time before this changes. Maybe you understand why I'm rooting so much for the open-source driver now :-)
--"J"
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