Question about X-Fi cards and FC9 (or FC10 upcoming ...)

[Jim Hayward]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 20:44 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:

> 
> Don't get the X-Fi.
> 
> Long story short: 
> Since the introduction of the X-Fi, Creative refused to release the
> specs of cards, claiming that it will release binary drivers ASAP.

Just in case you missed it, "hell has frozen over" and Creative finally
appears to have come to their senses. Creative has released a GPL v2
licensed driver and the source code for their X-Fi cards. Hopefully this
will eventually lead to support for the X-Fi cards being added to ALSA.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=132288


Regards,
	Jim H