Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

Adrian Bunk
2007-06-28T20:42:49Z

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:20:45PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On 6/28/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ALSA has been the Linux soundsystem for a number of years now and as such,
>> an application that runs under Linux and produces sound more and more can
>> be
>> expected to do so using the Linux API. The only reason it _can_ be seen as
>> a
>> detail is due to the Just Works nature of the OSS emulation but that is
>> changing due to the software mixing. Binary apps are also moving to ALSA
>> currently, ie, flash, skype, ...
>
> If your disto ships with any OSS apps using the in-kernel emulation
> you should file a bug report, as it results in bizarre and undesirable
> behavior - a single app opening /dev/dsp will block audio for every
> other app (OSS or ALSA) on the vast majority of hardware out there.

There's software like mplayer that supports both and tries OSS first...

> Lee

cu
Adrian

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