Re: SB Live by Creative.

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Mon, 10 May 1999 12:55:14 +0100

khim@sch57.msk.ru said:
> Here was long discussion on subject already. Short summary: it's
> binary only driver and so you can use it only in certain versions of
> kernel and even then there are no guarantee that this will work in all
> confirations of kernel. So if you already have SB Live it's good news
> for you: even binary driver is better then nothing. But if you want
> decent PCI Sound Card then better buy something Trident 4DWave based
> and use ALSA instead...

I seem to recall that Creative have said from the start that it was their
intention to release a binary driver 'to at least get people up and running',
and to follow it up with proper documentation and sample source code as soon
as possible.

Be fair - they may have restrictions on the code they're already using, so
they're not allowed to release it.

They're working on the documentation, and a driver that they can release in
source form - but as a stopgap, they're releasing a binary. That's reasonable
enough, isn't it?

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