Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:24:37 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:52 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 14:47, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > It strikes me that it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Vendors are still > > releasing applications on Linux that support only OSS, partly due to > > ignorance, but mostly because ALSA's OSS compatibility layer allows them to > > lazily ignore the ALSA API and target all cards, old and new. > > As long as it works why is that a bad thing? OSS API works just fine > for most sound needs. If you want to do high end sound you can still > use ALSA.
OSS can't do software mixing of multiple audio streams, it requires a sound server to do this. So IMHO the OSS approach causes more bloat on the desktop.
Lee
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