Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla) [LWN.net]

Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla)

Posted Nov 9, 2008 6:18 UTC (Sun) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla) by drag
Parent article: Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla)

>Well I don't know about this volume mixing stuff. I don't think there is any card in my experience that didn't have volume controls on it. Even any onboard card or whatever.

Well, here goes. https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2250
(Alsamixer shows volume controls, but since the underlying hardware coded does not support volume control *at all*, these volume settings in alsamixer only apply to programs using alsalib.)

>I don't know about UT99, but UT2004 uses SDL libs so that's not a big deal.

Many programs use SDL only for video. UT99 seems to use openal for audio output. However, the problem here is with programs using OSS in general - some of them can may be tweaked to use ALSA, but not those that have OSS open/ioctl etc hardcoded.

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Creative releases Linux GPL X-Fi drivers (Fudzilla)

Posted Nov 9, 2008 18:52 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

wow. That chipset is real POS. I guess that is a problem I've just managed to avoid accidently. (then again I've always avoided buying anything Sis-related)