actually, a lot of us find the sound driver stuff objectionable too (because it leaves us with practically useless sound code, almost enough to drive one to NetBSD :-) I still don't have any way to use *both* ESS1688's in my laptop (when docked), which should be *trivial* if the module took arguments like every other module in the system... but no, that feature seems to only be in the "commercial" version. So no, "pretty common" isn't even close -- the OSS stuff is just *another* glaring diversion from Free Software. I'm surprised it ever got in to the kernel that way, but I didn't have any sound support on any of my machines until my newest [refurbished, 3year old] laptop... and didn't realize until now just how bad it was...
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