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

20 Jun 2005

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   -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

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