From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Louis Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:21:39 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <20060104132139.GA5753@athame.dynamicro.on.ca> List-Id: References: <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> <20060104000344.GJ3831@stusta.de> <20060104010123.GK3831@stusta.de> <1136364634.22598.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1136364634.22598.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20060104 (Wed) at 0850:34 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2006-01-04 at 03:51 +0100, Tomasz K??oczko wrote: > > Be compliant with OSS specyfication allow save many time on applications > > development level by consume (in good sense) time spend on this > > applications by *BSD, Solaris and other systems developers (even on not > > open source applications). > > Both Solaris and FreeBSD contain Linux emulation code so in that sense > they admitted 'defeat' long ago. > > > valuable functionalities in usable/simpler form for joe-like users .. > > remember: sound support in Linux isn't for data centers/big-ass-machines :) > > And distributions nowdays ship with ALSA by default, which is giving > users far better audio timing behaviour, mixing they want, digital and > analogue 5.1 outputs. OSS really isn't ideal for serious "end user" > applications like video playback > Ok, so I'm not serious :) just wanna do fairly standard audio things. - ALSA doesn't (AFAIK, haven't checked for a few months) support my old Audiotrix sound card -- bye, machine 1 - ALSA can't be persuaded (not by me, anyway) to drive my VIA ac97_codec onboard sound hardware -- everything works fine except unmuting ;) -- bye, machine 2 - ALSA does suport my i810_audio ac97_codec laptop, but so does OSS, equally well (for my unsophisticated needs) and with a far less elephantine footprint in memory. -- strike 3, ALSA out. So even if sound support in Linux _is_ for "big-ass" studio work, it would be nice if little guys didn't get abandoned along the way, IMHO. -- | G r e g L o u i s | gpg public key: 0x400B1AA86D9E3E64 | | http://www.bgl.nu/~glouis | (on my website or any keyserver) | | http://wecanstopspam.org in signatures helps fight junk email. |