From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Dec 27 21:58:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [206.161.83.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE0F14F81 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:58:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clash@tasam.com) Received: from fireduck (216-164-136-117.s117.tnt4.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com [216.164.136.117]) by tasam.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA68055; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:58:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from clash@tasam.com) Message-ID: <005601bf50f8$7f4987a0$7588a4d8@fireduck> From: "Joe Gleason" To: Subject: Hassle Creative Labs into releasing infomation (for dxr2) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:55:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Here is my current understanding. If I am incorrect about any of this, someone please correct me. - I have a DVD-Drive and Dxr2 card (both Creative Labs products). - The DVD drive is supported under FreeBSD for reading normal CD's only - The Dxr2 card is not supported at all - These lack of support situations could be best corrected if Creative Labs released detailed tech info to FreeBSD coders who could then write drivers - Creative has been uncooperative about giving out info If all the above is correct, then I suggest we collectively hassle Creative Labs into releasing said infomation. Any thoughts? I was reading through the archives and noted that someone said something along the lines of: If vendors do not share info with us so that we can support them, we just won't support them and cause users to boycot them. I agree with this statement in principal but I do not think FreeBSD is big enough to really get them to pay attention if we don't let them know we are here. Therefore I suggest that everyone intersted goto: http://www.americas.creative.com/feedback-products.html And submit a comment about releasing info the FreeBSD and Linux developers. That way we can maybe watch our DVD's before we crush M$ with our iron fist. That's probably more than enough out of me. Joe Gleason Tasam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message