From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87k7tgf12g.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: , <3C6AD722.BBBCB951@null.net> Subject: [9fans] Re: Audio - how? plus missing audio(7) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:09:06 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 507205ce-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "Douglas A. Gwyn" 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.