Also... they don't support Amd k6/2's  or Cyrix's, but I just have a
k6/2...   hehe... but the wgs thing won't install, says it req's a p90...
and the patch they have requires some cd ... that doesn't exist...
hehehe.... oh well....   maybe that's why all my creative cards are in my
celery...       

At 11:25 PM 2/22/99 -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>This is an old theme that I believe bears repeating.  I was reading the
>mini-howto on soundblasters and came across this:
>
>  The SB AWE 64 has the capabilities of the SB AWE 32 and an additional
>  Wave Guide synthesis Creative Labs is especially proud of. The problem
>
>  for Linux users is, that the additional 32 voices are software
>  generated and output via the raw wave devices. Because Creative Labs
>  sees no market in Linux drivers, a Wave Guide synthesis sound driver
>  is only available for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.
>
>Cane people think of a polite way to put pressure on folks such as
>Creative Labs to develop Linux drivers?  It seems to me that Linux is
>poised to make a "quantum leap" into self configuration with PnP.  It
>would be really nice if hardware manufactures took part in developing
>the software components for their products.  As far as there not being a
>market, well I've spent over ten thousand dollars on computer equipment
>in my life and I am running linux on all my systems.  (Yea, I do have
>NT partitions so I can learn things for work.)  I would suggest an
>e-mail campaign, but that sound too much like spamming.  Perhaps an
>internet petition form might be a good way to collect input to then send
>to hardware manufactures.
>
>Steve
>
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>
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>
>
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