I'm looking at the flip side, hoping that this will be an opportunity to improve support on the SPARC side (since OSS opens up the possibility of more easily porting Linux audio and eventually MIDI apps). Right now, although the OSS drivers exist for SPARC, there are a number of devices they don't work so well (or at all) with; the performance with my Logitech USB headset is poor, while my Creative Audigy NX USB doesn't work at all. And if the Solaris audio will move in the direction of OSS, maybe support for the onboard audio (like what the audiocs driver presently handles) and the Solaris compatibility devices of OSS (which presently don't seem to work either, at least on SPARC) will improve.
I think OSS has a lot of promise, and on x86, it's about the only way to go in many cases; but on SPARC, it needs work, and hopefully this will let that work be done. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
