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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Audio - how? plus missing audio(7)
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:09:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7tgf12g.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C6AD722.BBBCB951@null.net>

"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> writes:

> Joel Salomon wrote:
> > I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI that I thought should
> > work.
> 
> No, Creative uses misleading packaging.  It's only "compatible"
> with a genuine SoundBlaster-16 with help from a software emulation,
> part of the (Windows) driver, which Plan 9 doesn't provide.

However, Creative has been pretty cooperative with helping make free
software drivers for Linux, so I would expect that it shouldn't be too
hard to write a Plan 9 driver by looking at the Linux one.


      reply	other threads:[~2002-02-14 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-11  9:54 [9fans] " Joel Salomon
2002-02-14  9:36 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-02-14 17:09   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]

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