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PulseAudio 2.0 releasedPulseAudio 2.0 releasedPosted May 13, 2012 2:06 UTC (Sun) by xtifr (subscriber, #143)In reply to: PulseAudio 2.0 released by adamgundy Parent article: PulseAudio 2.0 released
Ah nifty. Unfortunately, I've been avoiding kernel 3.x until I can find out for sure whether it still supports my completely-open-source-friendly-but-old G400 that still runs fine (on its third motherboard). I heard a rumor they were dropping support, for some reason, but I hate to waste money replacing something that still seems to meet all my needs.
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PulseAudio 2.0 released Posted May 13, 2012 4:03 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] Ever considered that just building your own 3.x kernel and testing is a real cheap way to find out? Or grab a random LiveCD with it, and look? (Sheesh)
PulseAudio 2.0 released Posted May 13, 2012 14:10 UTC (Sun) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
Not sure I would have described the G400 (Matrox G400 right?) as open-source friendly. IIRC Matrox used to ship a black box binary that was needed to make various features work, without it you got a 2D framebuffer and some quality DACs, which aren't very relevant at this point because everybody is upgrading to digital video...
On my Fedora 16 box with 3.3.4, I seem to have a kernel module named 'mga' which claims to be for "Matrox G200/G400" and requires binary firmware I don't have (I probably have a G400 somewhere but no slot to put it in) but I
- don't know for sure that this works with your specific model (of course)
PulseAudio 2.0 released Posted Jun 12, 2012 16:19 UTC (Tue) by xtifr (subscriber, #143) [Link]
Nope, I assure you, as a member of Debian, I did my research before buying this card, and it was one of the very few with full open-source support for 3d acceleration at the time. No blobs involved.
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