From: "Raphaël RIGO" <raphael.rigo@inp-net.eu.org>
To: "Markus Hästbacka" <midian@ihme.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ALSA vs. OSS
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:08:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <400C1D17.5050308@inp-net.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074532714.16759.4.camel@midux>
Markus Hästbacka wrote:
> Hello list,
> I wonder what's the difference with ALSA and OSS. I have tried both,
> someone may say that ALSA is much better than OSS, but with my
> experience with ALSA I wouldn't say that, I would probably say it should
> be removed from the kernel totally.
>
> So, what are the reasons for ALSA to become "default" in 2.6?
> I know it gives somekind of nice features, but ALSA didn't let me to
> open two sound sources (like XMMS and Quake3) at the same time, so I
> guess it is not really done yet, or is it?
>
> Ignore this if you don't care.
> Thanks,
> Markus.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php3?company=Generic&card=Generic&chip=Generic&module=Generic#softmix
This will tell you how to enable software mixing with ALSA.
I'm not able to give a perfect answer for the reasons why ALSA has been chosen
to replace OSS so i will let someone else answer :)
Raphaël.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 17:18 Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-19 17:48 ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-19 18:21 ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20 8:58 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-01-20 9:46 ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 13:18 ` Mark Borgerding
2004-01-20 14:03 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:07 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:17 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:37 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:41 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-02-25 22:21 ` Markus Hästbacka
[not found] ` <20040120170658.GB23351@widomaker.com>
2004-01-20 17:35 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:08 ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 15:13 ` Alistair John Strachan
2004-01-20 15:19 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-22 23:53 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2004-01-23 8:31 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 19:00 ` Eric Sandall
2004-01-21 11:03 ` Dale Weber
2004-01-21 18:06 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-24 8:21 ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20 19:24 ` Brian McGroarty
2004-01-20 19:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-19 18:08 ` Raphaël RIGO [this message]
2004-01-19 19:42 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 14:24 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-01-20 14:44 ` Thomas Dodd
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401201524230.2010@pnote.perex-int.cz>
2004-01-20 14:48 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-01-20 15:06 ` Takashi Iwai
[not found] <20040119174543.59620.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-01-19 18:06 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-21 2:40 Jonathan Boler
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