Martin - first off, anyone has the right to complain especially when its presented in a salient way. I recognize this is not the most important thing for everyone, and Canonical certainly has no obligation whatsoever to make a particular piece of hardware work. Nevertheless, this continued failing is a valid point and does alienate a great many potential Ubuntu users. I'm delighted to hear there's work being done - but how long has this been worked on now?? 2+ years??
Let's not rehash the Creative drivers issue. For Windows they're a bloated mess. For Linux they simply don't work. Wouldn't the most constructive path here be to simply find a real solution? Cheers, ~Greg ---------------------------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:00:00 +0000 > Subject: [Bug 63352] Re: Creative labs X-Fi sound card unsupported > > Actually, there is ongoing work to support the X-Fi [1]. I think it's unfair > to complain on Creative here for the lack of Linux drivers, when they have > actually been available for a year or so [2] (64bit only, in beta). And this > spring they released 32bit drivers as well [3]. > Last time I used Creative drivers in Windows they were bloated and crippled, > and the Linux ones appears to have their issues on their own. I for one will > not buy Creative hardware again because of their terrible drivers. > I also think it's unfair of you to complain on Canonical for the lack of > packed drivers, because the drivers Creative released is still in beta and > doesn't always work properly. > And for the love of everything that's holy and some things that are not, > don't come dragging with the "OMG i will reinstall windows this suxx0rs" > argument. Many people are working hard to support your free operating system > choice, and most is not even getting paid for it. Personally I don't care > much of what OS you use, as long as you let me keep my preferences and work > in a OSS environment. > > 1: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc3NQ > 2: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4823915&postcount=675 > 3: http://connect.creativelabs.com/opensource/Wiki/SoundCard%20Support.aspx > > -- > Creative labs X-Fi sound card unsupported > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63352 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in The Linux Kernel: New > Status in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in “linux-source-2.6.17” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid > > Bug description: > New PC has this card. It's unsupported as far as i can tell. > > Please make it work :) > > 06:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs Unknown device 0005 > Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 0021 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium>TAbort- SERR- > Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 1250ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 > Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=32] > Region 1: Memory at fbe00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M] > Region 3: Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 > Enable- > Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 -- Creative labs X-Fi sound card unsupported https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63352 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
