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Volkert de Buisonjé <volkertb@dds.nl> wrote:

I'd like to say that I just couldn't take it anymore and decided to throw out my Aureal Vortex based sound card. I contacted them and they said that "they couldn't release the specs AT THIS TIME" (???), but it seems that 4Front Technologies (Opensound) is working on support for that card. They probably signed one of those fucking NDA's with them. According to their site it is still going to take months (second quarter 1999) before they develop a driver for the Vortex chip. But since the programming specs aren't open anyway (I mailed them several times, they only replied once), you can add those no-good-for-crap Aureal sound chips to your list as well. I'm know back to a good old Gravis pnp, although I would have preferred a PCI only configuration (no offense to the Ultrasound cards of course ;-) ). As a matter of fact, a fellow student has asked me to join him in a college project to design a new kick-ass PCI sound card with entirely open specs. Naturally, we'll keep you posted and send you the specs as soon as the card is out. And if you have any suggestions (after all, you do have a lot experience in designing drivers for existing audio hardware platforms), we'd love to hear them.


We still have not useable documentation for Yamaha PCI chipsets. Please, don't send us that the datasheets are available at http://www.yamahayst.com/pcaudio/products.htm. There are only descriptions for legacy devices (SB, MPU401). We need some info about native registers.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 13:01:25 +0900
From: Chie Norimatsu 
Cc: nkn-ytr@post.yamaha.co.jp
Subject: YMF744B documentation

Dear Mr. Hollis:

Thank you for your e-mail on our YMF744B datasheet.
However, the documentation on "PCI Native Audio" block is not available.

Would you please let us know about your company and your application using
the
YMF744B ?
Nothing has arrived to this time :-((

I'm expecting that this black list will grow :-(( Please, look to ALSA Sound card Vendor Information too.


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