"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.
You might be pleased to hear that Creative hired a programmer
specifically to write Linux drivers for their products not too long ago.
--
Michael Andersen
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