From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:27:10 -0500 Message-ID: <1137810430.3241.97.camel@mindpipe> References: <20060119174600.GT19398@stusta.de> <200601191947.20748.pzad@pobox.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net (viper.oldcity.dca.net [216.158.38.4]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with SMTP id B62B818D for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:27:13 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Peter Zubaj , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@suse.cz List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:25 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:46, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> SOUND_EMU10K1 > >> - ALSA #1735 (OSS emulation 4-channel mode rear channels not working) > > > >If I understand alsa - oss emulation correctly, I think, this will be not > >fixed soon (my opinion - never). This is too much work for too little gain. > > On that way, I'd like to inquiry something: > I have a card that works with the snd-cs46xx module. > With the OSS emulation (/dev/dsp), I can only output 2 channels, and the > other two must be sent to /dev/adsp. Is this intended? Would not it be > easier to make /dev/dsp allow receiving an ioctl setting 4 channels? > Why can't you just use aoss? Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750785AbWAUC1O (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:27:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750788AbWAUC1O (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:27:14 -0500 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:27865 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750785AbWAUC1N (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:27:13 -0500 Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach From: Lee Revell To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Peter Zubaj , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@suse.cz In-Reply-To: References: <20060119174600.GT19398@stusta.de> <200601191947.20748.pzad@pobox.sk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:27:10 -0500 Message-Id: <1137810430.3241.97.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:25 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:46, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> SOUND_EMU10K1 > >> - ALSA #1735 (OSS emulation 4-channel mode rear channels not working) > > > >If I understand alsa - oss emulation correctly, I think, this will be not > >fixed soon (my opinion - never). This is too much work for too little gain. > > On that way, I'd like to inquiry something: > I have a card that works with the snd-cs46xx module. > With the OSS emulation (/dev/dsp), I can only output 2 channels, and the > other two must be sent to /dev/adsp. Is this intended? Would not it be > easier to make /dev/dsp allow receiving an ioctl setting 4 channels? > Why can't you just use aoss? Lee