From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Re: Re: questions for alsa-devel Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:51:35 +1000 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3D9BA2A7.6080401@superbug.demon.co.uk> References: <200210021157.g92Bvvk12578@op.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Thierry Vignaud Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Thierry Vignaud wrote: >Takashi Iwai writes: > > > >>>4) note that if you boot with a kernel with alsa-0.9.0, all your >>> alsa apps won't work unless you use them in oss emulation mode. >>> >>> >> >>why? is there any incompatibility? >> >> > >i presume you joke ? >remember the incompatible apis of alsa-0.5.x and alsa-0.9.x ? :-) > > > You are assuming that people still use alsa-0.5.x in applications. For example, xine (xine.sf.net) dropped support for alsa-0.5.x ages ago, it only supports alsa-0.9.x. It also supports lots of other audio drivers, eg. oss, esd, arts etc. Are there still applications out there that only support alsa-0.5.x and not alsa-0.9.x. alsa-0.9.x is so much easier to program an application for than alsa-0.5.x ever was. Cheers James ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf