On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
> in general, there seem to have been a lot more people working on the
> OSS drivers than the ALSA ones.
as others have said, this should change if alsa is in the kernel tree.
this is a development kernel, and in an odd-numbered release, nothing is
assured to work ideally. if alsa isn't ready by the time kernel 2.6.0 is,
they could leave in oss drivers.
> i think we need to have a clear idea (and answer) about this issue, so
> that we can explain to people who find that their card doesn't work as
> well (at all?) under ALSA why this change is being made and what the
> path and timeline back to "full operation" is.
> so do you feel absolutely comfortable in asserting that for all the
> hardware that both OSS and ALSA support, ALSA's support is more or
> less as good as the OSS code? i just worry that people who don't want
> to see this change will argue that ALSA must get all of its low level
> drivers into the "as good or better than" state first before the merge
> with the kernel tree occurs ...
i have found that with my two soundcards (ice1712, ymf744b), alsa works
*better* than oss, and they only work with the *commercial* oss, with
*specially-priced* options - and that's $20 (oss) + $45 (envy24) + $15
(ymh) = $80 !!! for buggy drivers i don't have the option to fix, no
less.
-dave
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