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

Kjetil S. Matheussen k.s.matheussen at notam02.no
Sat Dec 12 07:43:43 EST 2009


Patrick Shirkey:
>
> On 12/12/2009 01:32 AM, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>> (previously sent to the wrong mailing list)
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>
>
> Are you tired of ALSA or of apps like flash, skype, realplayer etc that
> don't support 64bit systems correctly?
>

Not really. I've never used a 64bit system on linux.
Mixing has never worked properly with alsa, and thats
the main cause of, at least my, frustration. However, what
triggered the above message was actually that my new
office machine has a graphics card with a hdmi sound
card. The amount of work (paid by my employee)
required to force the computer not to
use that sound card as the default was what made
me want to explore OSS instead of ALSA. Alsa
is nice in various ways, but it's just too complicated.





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