Re: "direct" PCM mode default?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:19, Petter Sundlöf wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to somehow make "direct" PCM mode the default 
> for applications that use it, like Quake and so on?
> 
> Or if this is unsane, can some other workaround be devised?
> 

Yes, of course.  The whole reason we need to do this horrible hackery is
to support old applications that use an obsolete sound API, we basically
have to be bug-for-bug compatible, to support old applications that the
developers cannot or will not update.  The actual fix is to update
Quake3 to use the ALSA sound API.

> A user shouldn't have to make specific workarounds 
> (http://alsa-project.org/~iwai/OSS-Emulation.html) for each application 
> that has a little quirk. Or?

No, of course not.  But anytime you want to run legacy apps on a modern
system, it won't be 100% perfect.

A shocking number of closed source applications *still* use OSS for
their new versions (flashplayer7 for example).  The only fix for this is
a LART.

Lee 



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