Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their X-Fi Driver

Posted by phoronix on Nov 7, 2008 4:17 AM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card driver for Linux from Creative Labs was awful. That's simply the nicest way to put it. The driver was home to many bugs, initially only supported 64-bit Linux, and it was arriving extremely late. The open-source drivers supporting the Creative X-Fi drivers have also been at a stand still. However, Creative Labs today has finally turned this situation around and they have open-sourced the code to this notorious driver. The source-code for the Creative X-Fi driver is now licensed under the GNU GPLv2.

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Took 'em long enough... techiem2 5 1,282 Nov 7, 2008 10:54 PM

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