[linux-audio-dev] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ? - ALSA

[Christoph Eckert]

> > -OSS/ALSA Conflicting modules in hotplug. Hotplug seems
> > to make a mess in many systems i've seen, of loading ALSA
> > and OSS modules at the same time, by rendering the system
> > audio unusable.
>
> compiling a kernel to have both OSS and ALSA modules around
> makes a mess of many systems i've seen.

I can confirm that. Since I learned to build my own kernel and 
I disabled all OSS stuff I get much better results.

As an example, I often received sysex packages the first three 
bytes missing. Disabling USB/usb-midi (which is in fact an 
OSS driver) resolved the problem.

BTW: Any kernel hacker here? When disabling the OSS drivers 
completely, /usb/USB-midi and /USB/usb-audio should be also 
disabled automatically, and both options should be marked as 
"Deprecated" as OSS is. Any chance we incluzde this in the 
kernel config?



Best regards


    ce