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Title: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound cards
Post by: MrZammler on January 31, 2003, 01:43:04 PM

The new AHI drivers support sound cards based on the FM801 chip, like the Terratec 512i Digital sound card.

More from Elbox (http://www.elbox.com/news_03_01_31.html)

Title: Re: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound car
Post by: jd997uk on January 31, 2003, 04:11:48 PM

All fine and well, but where's our promised SB Live drivers?

-john

Title: Re: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound car
Post by: trgse on January 31, 2003, 06:18:40 PM

they are in development according to Elbox...
which taking into account how long they have been in 'development' suggest that they are never going to materialize... from elbox, the good thing is that OS 4.x already have SB LiVE AHI driver (which probably explains why Elbox doesn't develop their own).

Title: Re: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound car
Post by: ikir on January 31, 2003, 08:22:36 PM

Cool :-)

Title: Re: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound car
Post by: Blomberg on February 01, 2003, 03:14:57 AM

Hmm, i thought the Terratec 512i was already supported by AHI?

It says so on the AHI Homepage (http://www.lysator.liu.se/(user)/~lcs/ahi.html).

Title: Re: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound car
Post by: Rob on February 01, 2003, 03:19:02 AM

@Blomberg

It probably was but not for Mediator until now.

Title: Re: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound car
Post by: Helgis75 on February 01, 2003, 12:21:52 PM

The TerraTec Auroun-line is very identical to the SB Live/Audigy-line, so there should be AHI-drivers for the TerraTec Auroun-line, too. They also have surround-features like SB Live/Audigy.

Title: Re: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound car
Post by: trgse on February 01, 2003, 01:04:14 PM

let me put it this way...

if elbox can't make a SB LiVE/Audigy driver which has open source drivers available with all documentation of the dsp, mixer, midi and so on (including the managers/SoundFont/Surround Sound etc) they will certainly not be able to make any kind of driver for the Terratec Auron.

and since the reason why they can't make a SB LiVE driver therefore must be a hardware fault/bug/limitation of the mediator the same limitations will most likely stop any driver for something like the Auron too.

:-x :-(

Title: Re: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound car
Post by: ikir on February 01, 2003, 01:26:27 PM

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and since the reason why they can't make a SB LiVE driver therefore must be a hardware fault/bug/limitation of the mediator the same limitations will most likely stop any driver for something like the Auron too

I don't think that Mediator has a bug/limitation. It a really good products, not like Grex (DMA ecc ecc)
Other PCI company always release driver after elbox do, and Mediator has a big quantity of driver, a impressive work for a company which work in a small market like this.

Title: Re: New Elbox AHI Mediator drivers for FM801-based sound car
Post by: Darth_X on February 01, 2003, 09:32:57 PM

> All fine and well, but where's our promised SB Live drivers?


 :-o You might want to also ask AmigaInc what happened to the LIVE drivers that were being developed for them by a subcontractor.  

Maybe  

hint: I'd like to know too!  :-D