Dear Juan,
I agree with you, but let's hope that RME will provide some drivers for their PCMCIA solution. As most of you know, there's already an Alsa driver for their Hammerfall card : http://www.rme-audio.com/english/linux/alsa/alsa.htm On this page, they say: "ALSA support for the Hammerfall breaks the annoying chicken/egg principle: no professional hardware/driver - no professional software... RME is proud to be a part of this first big step for Linux towards a professional audio usage. Possibly bothered by the Hammerfall's appearance on the Linux scene, some of our competitors have now followed our example. Drivers for other well-known cards and chips in the professional market are expected in the near future." And I hope all these companies will write some open source drivers for Linux in the future, when we'll have the best multimedia platform, thanks to Demudi distribution :) : http://www.demudi.org/ Yes, I'm optimistic !
Have a good day ! Nicolas
----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Reyes" juanig@ccrma.stanford.edu To: "Nicolas Lhommet" nlhommet@netcourrier.com Cc: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [PD] laptop multichannel solutions under linux ?
Dear Nicolas,
It doesn't and they don't have any desire to write open source or even commercial drivers for Linux. The Digigram Card (VX-Pocket) was the other solution for Mac and Windoze but the situation is pretty much the same. Apparently there is a going to be an ALSA driver for another PCMCIA card but please forgive me I don't have the information at hand.
_ Juan