[linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back (was Re: alsa, oss , efficiency?)

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:54 +0000, John Rigg wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:56:52AM -0700, Garett Shulman wrote:
> > If you ask me... I would recommend that the alsa team drop all of the 
> > ambitions plugin stuff (except sampl rate & bit rate) 
> 
> Without `ambitious plugin stuff' like pcm_multi, nobody would be able
> to use multiple sound cards with ALSA. The fact that pcm_multi has needed
> patching since January 2005 to make it work in duplex mode with jackd
> is only a minor inconvenience compared with not having it at all.
> 

Please, please keep pushing the ALSA guys to fix this.  I keep raising
the issue and every time the thread peters out with no resolution.

Lee

> John
>