[LAU] Anyone has experience with OSS (3 or 4)? (fwd)

[david]

Peter Nelson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 21:53 -1000, david wrote:
>> 64-bit could be the problem. Particularly the shortage of 64-bit device 
>> drivers? I have nothing here running 64-bit, although the desktop 
>> machine's Sempron could run 64-bit.
> 
> Why do you think there is a shortage of 64-bit drivers? Linux is not
> Windows XP.

Because that's what I've been told by people who presumably know better 
than I do. I don't run 64-bit OS of any sort, so don't know.

> The problem is generally with older software or closed source software
> that still uses OSS (sadly some brand new closed source software still
> does this) or tries to use 'hw:0' instead of 'default'. That kind of
> thing. 32- or 64-bit is not a problem at all.

Or even modern stuff like JACK where if I specify "default" it comes up 
trying to use my laptop's built Intel modem as an audio output device. 
Sure, there are ways around it, but specifying something like hw:2 works 
easily.

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