I for one greatly appreciate the switch to ALSA, I am using a C-Media 8738 6 channel sound integrated into an IWILL mobo, and have incessantly gotten erroneous playback problems due to 2 things: 1: there ARE NO OSS-only drivers available for my sound (afaik) 2: ALSA .5x drivers (both provided by mdk AND C-media) on 8.2 are very buggy with cpu-intensive tasks (like WINE in particular, wine will only use OSS, crashes with ALSA!)
I am all for the early switch, and believe it will be of greater benefit to users in general. keep up the good work all! Anthony Dolan -On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:05:57 +0200 -Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as for alsa vs oss, most programs rather prefer alsa api over oss > (despite oss still being the defacto standard) especially on the > multimedia area. > > as for working driver, i cannot speak until i know which driver he > uses. > > but i know one thing: whenever i did a pass on alsa drivers to add new > cards to pcitable, i *ALWAYS* keep the oss driver when he was already > there. > as for the "working driver", i only switched from oss to alsa when > people asked me (because of oss bug, ...). > > i saw people reporting alsa working better than oss. i rarely (never?) > see the reverse (i don't count tom's report "don't fix perfectly > working driver" as a bug report but as insults/troll)
