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Feb 14, 2008, 02:37 AM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
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Creative Labs releases X-Fi specs to FOSS coders
Creative Labs releases X-Fi specs to FOSS coders - The INQUIRER
Maybe we'll see drivers for x-fi ?  sometime. |
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Feb 14, 2008, 09:08 AM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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That's quite cool. However, it's not completely official--the ALSA guy posted a single sentence to the mailing list: "I might be able to comment on this once I get the datasheets from Creative in the next week or so.". It was in response to the release from the competing open source sound system OSS of a version with rudimentary X-Fi support. I guess OSS guys got some specs already? They have not reverse engineered the windows driver, have they?
The wording on the Creative open source site is quite strange indeed: "A customer sent the following message: Open source support (beta) for X-fi announced...." link If this makes old Audigys cheaper, I'm all for it.  |
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Feb 15, 2008, 12:42 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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After that shitty 64-bit driver they released for linux, this is good news.
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Mar 7, 2008, 06:14 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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Hopefully, we are one step closer to having the functionality of KX with the power of the X-fi DSP chip...I can only imagine the DSP setups possible! -Hopefully someday.
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Apr 20, 2008, 12:50 AM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
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is there now a little chance that kx will support x-fi boards in the future ?
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Apr 25, 2008, 05:36 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
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I would be "happy as a little girl" to see KX-FI! I think this also creates the possibility of an *open* version of kx for x-fi, since Eugene has said in the past that he is under NDA from Creative Labs for 10k1/2. Here's what was said at Gmane Loom
_____________________ From: James Courtier-Dutton <James <at> superbug.co.uk> Subject: Re: OSS4 X-Fi driver port to ALSA Newsgroups: gmane.linux.alsa.devel Date: 2008-03-06 21:28:12 GMT (7 weeks, 1 day and 56 minutes ago) William Pitcock wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 14:23 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> Will anyone start porting from OSS? It doesn't look like so much >> amount of codes... >> > > I intend to port from OSS soon. I just need to learn more about the > driver's internals. > > William > I now had some datasheets for the x-fi. I think the first thing we should do is create a GPL version of the header files. Shall I do that task? James ___________ -jbobchin |
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