Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:12 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:57:11PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 18:02 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:05:00PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Now... if something can be
> > > > done in userspace, it probably should.
> > > 
> > > And that usually means it just isn't done.  Cases in point:
> > > multichannel audio software mixing, video pixel formats conversion.
> > 
> > What are you talking about?  ALSA does mixing in userspace, it works
> > great.
> 
> You have an interesting definition of "great".
> 
> 1- It doesn't work without an annoyingly complex, extremely badly
>    documented user configuration. To the point that it doesn't work in
>    either an out-of-the-box, updated Fedora Core 3 nor an
>    out-of-the-box gentoo.
> 

File a bug report with your distro then.  This is supposed to work OOTB.

> 2- It doesn't work for programs that do not use the annoyingly complex
>    and horribly documented alsa library, which includes everything
>    that still uses OSS[1].
> 

There's plenty of ALSA documentation.  Anyway mixing for OSS apps does
work, they just have to use the aoss wrapper.

Lee