What exactly is the problem with the alsa driver? Csound works OK with it. Replacing it with OSS will require us to write a new IO module for Csound. Without Csound, audio and music on the XO will have to be completely re-written.
IMHO, developers wanting to use audio on the XO should ideally use Csound and its Python API. That's why it's there. As far as I am concerned, having developed audio apps for Linux for several years, Alsa is much better and more reliable than OSS. Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jordan Crouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Arjun Sarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <devel@lists.laptop.org> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:02 PM Subject: Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO On 18/01/08 20:57 +0000, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote: > As far as I understand this is due to the use of ALSA without OSS > emulation. It's also what affects one of the three Speex bugs > affecting the XO, as the CLI tool speexdec is unable to use /dev/dsp. > > For the sake of improving the state of audio in the XO; I'd really > like to put to vote the idea of replacing ALSA with OSS 4. If thats the case, then we need somebody to volunteer to write the AC97 driver for the CS5536. I don't think we would consider any sort of change until the appropriate hardware controls are in place. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Systems Software Development Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
