[LAD] Anyone have experience with OSS (3 or 4)?

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

Lennart Poettering:
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> On Fri, 11.12.09 14:24, Kjetil S. Matheussen (k.s.matheussen at notam02.no) wrote:
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>> After about 10 years of frustration, I'm a bit tired of alsa.
>>
>> Does anyone know if OSS supports proper software mixing?
>> Is the alsa emulation working somewhat okay?
>> Are there any problems configuring the machine to use more than one card?
>
> One should note that OSS on Linux is a dead-end. The latest two Fedora
> releases have disabled kernel support for the OSS APIs by default, and
> Ubuntu is expected to do this now too. (or already did?)
>
> Also, note that the big distributors have folks working on ALSA. OTOH
> nobody who has any stakes in Linux supports OSS anymore or even has
> people working on it.
>

No. Not providing mixing for all devices is a design fault
in alsa. I'm going to install OSS as soon as I get time.