Hi! Yeah, it's a real pity with Areal. I own an SQ2500 card (a very nice card) and at some time used it under Linux. However, it functioned pretty badly.
The problem is, that the OSS drivers you see around are NOT open source (for the most part). They are based on Aureal's closed source modules. And the people that maintain the driver just try to hack around the bugs in those modules. The hardware specs for the chips were not released by Aureal, and Creative will never release them, of course. What can I say: it's a very cruel world. Aureal was one of the few companies that actually innovated something. And when they refused to bow down to the dragon (Creative) the dragon ate them. A real pity. On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:49:07 -0600 Kelledin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What exactly is the status on Vortex series cards (au8830)? > > I keep seeing a gray bar in the soundcard support matrix for Aureal's > last chipsets, with the note that "Aureal is bankrupt." However, there > _is_ a GPL driver out there for the Vortex series cards at > aureal.sourceforge.net. It's currently classified as "beta," but I've > had good luck supporting it with at least one user's au8830 card. Of > course, that's only OSS support, which only allows you two independent > channels of output. It just seems like a terrible waste of such a nice > surround-sound chipset. =( > > Kelledin > > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- Stanislav Kogan <*> eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
