Well,
I must not understand your post!
1. It seems to me that drivers written for say the Turtle Beach
Montego II card are of little or no use to one who has not bought the
card.
2. Why not supply the source to the driver so that anyone can compile
a kernel which will run the card? They *do* want to sell the card,
right? If they don't make it easy to get drivers, most (including me)
will simply buy another card. Why are sound card drivers different
in this respect from video cards, scsi controllers, cdroms drivers,
etc.?
3. One of the great things about Linux is that you *can* build custom
kernels to suit your machine and get better performance.
Given that Aureal will add Linux support, why don't they supply the source to
the driver? I wrote to their support site, but I don't know if it will
make a difference.
-Cheers,
-sen
Christopher Cox writes:
> With all due respect, if Mandrake, Redhat, SUSE, Caldera, Slackware and
> who-ever start modifying the kernels so that drivers and binaries will not
> run between them,
>
> You just killed the movement and handed power back to Microsoft.
> I have been through this garbage in the Unix world and it divides and
> conquers yourself.
>
> I love how easy Mandrake is to install, but will switch in a second it is
> the companies position that compatibility and reliability will be
> compromised for any reason.
>
> If not, or I misunderstood your post, I apologize.
>
> Christopher Cox
>
> ----------
> > From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment
> > Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 2:20 PM
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, S. Newhouse wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > One of our machines is a Dell with the Turtle Beach Montego sound
> > > card.
> > >
> > > I was happy to see that Aureal wrote drivers for it (from their web
> > > site), but then I found out that the drivers worked only for the
> > > RedHat kernels in 6.0 and 6.1. I tried to install them in Mandrake
> > > and (of course) they did not work. Anyone have ideas about how we can
> > > get these people and others to release sources to their drivers so
> > > that they can be compiled for every distribution?
> > >
> > > -sen
> >
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Advocacy.html
> >
> > --
> > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> > --Axalon
