Sony has begun taking orders for a $200 kit that lets Linux run on its PlayStation 2 video game console.
In an announcement Thursday, the company said it's taking preorders for the kit. The kit is expected to begin shipping May 22, the company said, meeting a deadline it announced at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in January.
The kit includes a 40GB hard disk, an Ethernet adapter, a mouse and a keyboard.
Sony doesn't expect the product to be a mainstream hit but hopes that hobbyists who tinker with the PlayStation can become top-notch game designers. Judging by the 9,626 people who signed a petition for Linux on the PS2, there is significant interest.
"In the future, we hope an army of PlayStation developers takes hold," Dominic Mallinson, director of technology for Sony's North American research and development group, said in a January interview. "We are doing this largely for noncommercial reasons. If it just pays for itself as an operating cost, that's fine with us."
News source: CNet News
In an announcement Thursday, the company said it's taking preorders for the kit. The kit is expected to begin shipping May 22, the company said, meeting a deadline it announced at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in January.
The kit includes a 40GB hard disk, an Ethernet adapter, a mouse and a keyboard.
Sony doesn't expect the product to be a mainstream hit but hopes that hobbyists who tinker with the PlayStation can become top-notch game designers. Judging by the 9,626 people who signed a petition for Linux on the PS2, there is significant interest.
"In the future, we hope an army of PlayStation developers takes hold," Dominic Mallinson, director of technology for Sony's North American research and development group, said in a January interview. "We are doing this largely for noncommercial reasons. If it just pays for itself as an operating cost, that's fine with us."
News source: CNet News
The following instructions are for WinXP
1) go to device manager
2) go to audio device/gameport
3) remove SBLive! WDM Basic Device
4) remove Gameport for SBLive!
5) backup wdma10k1.inf to wdma10k1.inf.old
6) backup wdma10k1.pnf to wdma10k1.pnf.old
7) Install official Audigy driver, and select "no" when prompt for "uninstalling driver"
8) restart
9) system report that new audio hardware is found, select do not install driver automatically System report new gameport device found, select do not install driver automatically.
10) run the audigy beta driver UDA_betaUDA_betaAudioEnglishdriversCTZAPXX.exe, select install WDM driver
11) restart, everything okay except the sound font manager
12) copy the sfman32.dll from the "common" directoy of the audigy driver disc, boot to DOS or other version of windows (or safe mode?), then copy the sfman32.dll to System32 directory of windows
13) restart, everything okay, all functionality
the conclusion by that guy is that Audigy is just the old core with new manufacture method (thus different chip size, etc.) with 24-bit playback DAC and 1394 interface. He also hypothesized that Creatvie have their stock dropping a lot earlier last year and a lot of people are criticizing that their R&D is too slow, so they just make Audigy which based on the same old core while advertsing it as "with a lot of whole new technology and functionality"
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