From: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com>
To: William <walsac3@liam2.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
geeceezee@free.fr, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: OSS vs ALSA war :-)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:45:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fz6uoh79.fsf@vador.mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408101716.SAA04883@liam2.demon.co.uk> (walsac3@liam2.demon.co.uk's message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:16:12 +0100")
William <walsac3@liam2.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > > 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]
the odds that quake3 uses /dev/sequencer are not that high :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-10 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-10 6:36 OSS vs ALSA war :-) Peter Zubaj
2004-08-10 7:14 ` GCZ
2004-08-10 7:33 ` Jaroslav Kysela
[not found] ` <41187FA1.80905@free.fr>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408100955090.1779@pnote.perex-int.cz>
2004-08-10 15:34 ` GCZ
2004-08-10 15:15 ` Frank Barknecht
2004-08-10 15:44 ` GCZ
2004-08-10 16:38 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-10 17:07 ` GCZ
2004-08-10 18:29 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-10 17:16 ` William
2004-08-10 17:21 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-10 20:45 ` Thierry Vignaud [this message]
2004-08-13 12:21 ` Clemens Ladisch
2004-08-10 17:40 ` Frank Barknecht
2004-08-10 18:20 ` GCZ
2004-08-10 19:00 ` Frank Barknecht
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2004-08-11 7:12 Peter Zubaj
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