From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Subject: Re: OSS vs ALSA war :-) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:16:12 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200408101716.SAA04883@liam2.demon.co.uk> References: <1092155904.861.3.camel@mindpipe> Return-path: Received: from liam2.demon.co.uk (liam2.demon.co.uk [158.152.170.203]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id B41B2110 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:15:07 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <1092155904.861.3.camel@mindpipe> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Lee Revell , geeceezee@free.fr Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Lee Revell wrote: > GCZ wrote: >> Should I refrain from playing UT2004 just because Nvidia's drivers, >> which work beautifully, are closed-source? Should I refrain from >> playing Quake 3 because ALSA doesn't work with it? > > No, this is why ALSA provides OSS emulation, so every legacy app doesn't > have to be recoded. One big problem is that some parts of ALSA's OSS emulation have been buggy for a long time, especially its /dev/sequencer emulation: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=28 [First reported August 2002, present since before Alsa 0.9.0] William ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285