On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:21:39AM -0500, Greg Louis wrote:
> 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
Noone wants to remove the drivers for hardware not supported by ALSA
from OSS.
After 4 years of ALSA in the kernel we are starting to remove the OSS
drivers from the kernel where ALSA drives the same hardware.
We might end up with a handful of OSS drivers for some ancient
soundcards without ALSA support and keep them similar to the old CD-ROM
drivers under drivers/cdrom/ (or someone might write ALSA drivers for
such hardware), but we don't need two drivers for the same hardware.
> - 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
Can you give me a bug number in the ALSA bug tracking system for this
issue to track it?
> - 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.
>...
How much RAM does your system have that this is really an issue for you?
Sure, it would be possible to make ALSA a bit slimmer, but if you are
running something like KDE or Mozilla or OpenOffice on your Laptop the
size of the kernel shouldn't be a real issue.
cu
Adrian
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