Igor Izyumin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Its not just ONE user. OSS has support for most all cards. ALSA > > doesn't have as large driver base. More is better
> Actually, the reason Mandrake switched was that OSS _doesn't_ > support all cards, and ALSA supports more. indeed but the thruth is that we don't switched from oss to alsa but instead provide both. i always kept by default oss drivers in your pcitable. each time a new alsa was released, i diffed the last versions, and added the new cards supported by latest alsa. so only new cards were defaulted to alsa. then, some people reported their card misbehave with the old oss driver we used with their card or that alsa was much more featured for their card. so on their request, i switched *only* their card from oss to alsa. > Also, OSS doesn't support more advanced features on cards like > SBLive (from what I understand, I don't actually have one). Can you > give me an example of a card that's not supported by ALSA that works > with OSS/Free? they're indeed very rare. > Maybe a couple of very obscure ones, but there are more drivers > overall, and the quality is usually better (I was getting pops with > one card with OSS, and the problem was fixed by switching to ALSA). > Anyway, here's the ALSA driver list: > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
