On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 11:31, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 01:10, Pixel wrote: > > Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 6. no easy way to disable arts, and it interferes with everything > > > > > > arts is what allows different progs to share a single /dev/dsp. > > > > seems like alsa can do this too on some hardware, with no need for > > arts... > > Yes it can. The question is: Is OSS not capable to do this ? If both > (OSS&Alsa) are able to do so arts is obsolete isn't it ? Can someone with > knowledge comment on this ?
OSS and ALSA are the same on this. if the hardware ( soundcard ) supports it then the oss or alsa driver supports it ( like sb-live ) , and if not, then the oss&alsa drivers don't support it ( like sb-128pci ). os arts is not obsolete. gabor
