To: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net> Subject: Re: SB Live and Open Specifications Date: Fri, 08 Jan 99 15:26:39 -0500 From: Developer Support <devsup@creativelabs.com> -- [ From: Developer Support * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- Edward S. Marshall, emarshal@logic.net As you may know, the SB-Live card uses the EMU 10K1 chipset. All programming information for this chipset is proprietary to EMU. Creative Labs is under NDA and can not release any requested hardware programming information for the SB-Live card. As for SB-Live Drivers for Linux, the 4Front Technologies WEB page stated that they should have drivers sometime in the 2nd Quarter of 1999. I can only assume that they have already contacted Creative Labs and EMU and made arrangements for obtaining the required information. But, if you know of another company that provides sound card drivers for Linux and/or other UNIX systems, and can meet the NDA requirements from EMU, then maybe they could create SB-Live drivers sooner. From my understanding, EMU has not released this information to any company that is not producing the card that it is on. But then again, I am not an EMU employee and am not privilege with such internal information. Until EMU decides to make such information public, Creative Labs can not provide any such programming resources. For UNIX based sound drivers, please see: http://www.opensound.com Regards, Creative Labs Developer Support -------- REPLY, Original message follows -------- > Date: Thursday, 07-Jan-99 09:39 PM > > From: Edward S. Marshall \ Internet: (emarshal@logic.net) > Subject: SB Live and Open Specifications > > To Creative Labs, > > I was considering the purchase of your SoundBlaster Live card, but discovered > that due to lack of publically available programming information, drivers for > the card cannot be developed for my operating system (Linux). > > Although I have been a customer of Creative in the past (because of the quality > of your hardware) I cannot remain with a vendor which cannot support my choice > of operating system, nor will I be able to, in good conscience, recommend you > as an open, cross-platform vendor. > > Do you have any plans to release sufficient programming specifications for your > SoundBlaster Live product such that it is possible to develop drivers for your > card for operating systems other than Windows? > > This message has been copied to the linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu mailing list; > I eagerly anticipate your response, which I will forward to the kernel > developers on that mailing list for discussion. > > Thank you for your quick response! > > -- > Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net> [ What goes up, must come down. ] > http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/ [ Ask any system administrator. ] > > -------- REPLY, End of original message -------- -- Regards, Phillip Williams Developer Support Services Creative Labs, Inc, USA EMail: devsup@creativelabs.com Website: http://developer.soundblaster.com/ Voice: (1) 405 742-2327 Please include all previous correspondence when replying to this message! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/