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Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code

Posted by timothy on from the intelligent-move dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a move that's a win for the free software community, Creative Labs has decided to release their binary Linux driver for the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium sound cards under the GPL license. This is coming after several failed attempts at delivering a working binary driver and years after these sound cards first hit the market."

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  1. Re:At last! by IceCreamGuy · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's funny because I had to wait for 8.04 before I could boot Ubuntu on my EVGA 8800GTS 640M without manually fucking editing the grub config to disable framebuffer. Every time I get a new graphics card I have to wait for Ubuntu to catch up if I don't want to edit config files or use the command line. Not complaining, it's me who gets the bleeding-edge hardware, but just because you don't have to use the command line on your rig doesn't mean that tons of other people don't have an easier time just booting XP.