Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

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

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 15:20 +0200, caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:19 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:44 +0100, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> >>>> Second - you still didn't explain why this allows you to conclude
> >>>> that sound mixing should in no way be done inside the kernel.
> >>>
> >>> It works perfectly right now in userspace.  Therefore it should not be
> >>> in the kernel.
> >> So all the complaints about dmix problems in the ALSA mailing lists are
> >> just exceptions that prove the above statement to be true.
> >
> > No, it just means ALSA like the kernel is a work in progress.  Anyway
> > almost all the known issues have been fixed.  It works perfectly for the
> > vast majority of users.
> >
> 
> Ok. It seems i'm a minority.
> I switched xmms to alsa

XMMS has a bug where it uses "hw:0,0" by default which will prevent dmix
from working.  It should be using the "default" PCM.

Lee

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