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I'm planning on getting a new PC at the end of the month and wanted to
get a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card for it (it seems like a great
card). Unfortunately, an e-mail to their techies revealed that there was
no Linux driver, nor were they planning to create one.
So what I wanted to know was whether there are any drivers being
developed for this card (or its Cirrus DSP's).

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Quote:>I'm planning on getting a new PC at the end of the month and wanted to
>get a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card for it (it seems like a great
>card). Unfortunately, an e-mail to their techies revealed that there was
>no Linux driver, nor were they planning to create one.

They don't need to create one.  
If the spec's are open, then the ALSA folks and the 4front folks
will create drivers.  I bought a santa cruz on good faith that there
would be open driver development in the vein of all the other cs4***
chips, even if it might take a few months.

Quote:>So what I wanted to know was whether there are any drivers being
>developed for this card (or its Cirrus DSP's).

They'd better not have turned proprietary/nondisclosable specs on us.
My * pressure is too high from this *with Diamond and from
Creative turning their back on ViA chipset compatability to deal
with that from voyetra/TB today.

PLEASE someone tell me that cs4630 support won't be impossible due
to closed specs.  

But will they spent the time and money to work on this one?

Quote:

> >So what I wanted to know was whether there are any drivers being
> >developed for this card (or its Cirrus DSP's).

> They'd better not have turned proprietary/nondisclosable specs on us.
> My * pressure is too high from this *with Diamond and from
> Creative turning their back on ViA chipset compatability to deal
> with that from voyetra/TB today.

> PLEASE someone tell me that cs4630 support won't be impossible due
> to closed specs.

The spec is available.  However, trying to take advantage of the DSP and
multiple channels features would not be easy.  To be effective, you need to
build the sound codec in the driver.  Writing DSP codes for mp3 and ac3
decoding should be fun, if you get paid for doing it.

Quote:

>> If the spec's are open, then the ALSA folks and the 4front folks
>> will create drivers.

>But will they spent the time and money to work on this one?

How would it differ from what's already been done for the other
cs4xxx based cards?  

Quote:>The spec is available.  However, trying to take advantage of the DSP and
>multiple channels features would not be easy.  To be effective, you need to
>build the sound codec in the driver.

Yes, but it would be nice to have basic functionality as a starting point.