Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>]

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

> > SOUND_ADLIB
> IIRC 8-bit sound, ISA. GUS on DOS used to emulate it
Extremely classic card. Would be fun to still have around if only for 
history's sake...
> > SOUND_PAS
> Pro Audio Spectrum. Earlier than GUS? 8-bit I think
Also drives my PAS16s. Yes, it's very old -- non-pnp ISA and all that. 
Used to be a fairly popular card at the time though (since it sounds 
better than most other cards of the era) so there's still a couple of 
those around. I believe I have three lying around somewhere, one of them 
in fact still installed (in a machine that's currently not available 
though).
Sure, wouldn't be a tragedy to remove, but keeping it neither (writing 
an ALSA driver for the stupid thing has been on my personal TODO only 
slightly shorter then all the items preceding it).
> > SOUND_PSS
> > SOUND_SB
> The original one (8-bit)? Not sure about relation to Kahlua and PAS
The relation to PAS16 at least is that the PAS includes a (independent) 
SB8 compatible chip. The OSS driver supplies two sound devices. At the 
moment, I'm not recalling with certainty whether or not they were also 
hardware mixed, but I guess they were...
Rene.
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