Re: [Cooker] ALSA 0.9 final is out

[George Mitchell]

Aurelien Bompard wrote:

Hi all

ALSA 0.9 final is out
http://freshmeat.net/projects/alsadriver/
Will it be included ?

Thanks

Aur�lien

 

This is good news as ALSA has pretty much replaces OSS.  And a stable 
ALSA would be nice, hopefully it somehow makes it in.  I find it sad 
that Mandrake often releases non-stable stuff in their core package just 
to be on the cutting edge.  The really good news though is that ALSA 1.0 
will apparently be including (or at least attempt to include) across the 
board /dev/sequencer wave table midi support (read kmid/rosegarden, 
etc.), the lack of which (since OSS dropped it) I have spent a good deal 
of time bitching about on this list.  On top of that, the 2.6 kernel 
will be designed around ALSA which should be an additional boost for 
Linux sound.  On top of that the 2.6 kernel also will include lots of 
ISA plug and play support.  So even though the present sometimes seems 
depressing in terms of Linux desktop capabilities, the future looks bright.