On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 16:00, Tom Whiting wrote: > Personally, I don't see what the problem is/was with OSS. If something works > (as it did), then why remove it? Alsa is nothing but a pain from what I've > seen (just over the past few days). It doesn't integrate well with UI's, it > isn't smart enough to know what it's doing (OSS could at least figure out > what sound to play and when, and I NEVER had a problem with it and arts).
OSS works *for some version of* works. It's just not as *good* as ALSA for many cards. A small example; the OSS driver for the sound chip in this machine works fine...but it has no setting for the microphone input gain level, which makes using a microphone effectively useless. The ALSA driver does. Now, there OSS *WORKS*, but which driver do you think i'd rather use? Oh, also, from what I remember ALSA is a lot better at allowing multiple applications to output sound at once than OSS. It also has better features for audio editors on the higher-end cards that are suited to that task. There ARE reasons ALSA, not OSS, will be the default in kernel 2.6, you know... -- adamw
