RE: Sound cards on the Alpha.

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 05:50 PM 03-08-99 +0100, Guenter Geiger.
Where you stated:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maurice Hilarius [mailto:maurice@harddata.com]
>
>> As I said a couple of months ago, OSS seems ot handle most
>> machines with
>> the PCI64 (Ensoniq) and it is SUCH a nice tool I recommend
>> it. Unless you
>> can't afford the $20 I guess..
>>
>
>Your are not serious here, are you ?
>OSS is what keeps Soundcard manufacturers from making their specs open,
>(by signing NDA´s with them)
>and therefore makes sound under Linux not more than toy.
>If you want to do any harm to sound support under Linux, go ahead
>and pay those 20$.
>And now imagine that things like that had happened to
>network cards instead, ...
>
>Guenter

I can. I wish!
I am curently embroiled in "fixing" the tulip driver for DEC2114x cards and
I really wiosh I had someone "on the hook" to be responsible for this to be
resolved.
Look, please don't misunderstand me, I think Open Source is lovely. BUT,
when it is mission critical time and it is not having the desired result
then what?
Have you tried installing a PnP PCI modem lately? Not funny.
I am sure that, given sufficiebt time, and given the increasing prominence
of Linux and OS we shall see the manufacturers improve their Linux device
driver support, but s for right now, there are some BIG holes to deal with.
4Front have helped me out a LOT of times. There have been machines which we
tried to implement sound on that were VERY difficult, and they always
helped us out.


Best regards,

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