I think alsa offers lower latency/jitter over OSS, hence why it was popular.
It's sad to see OSS gone completely now I think about it, with alsa misconfiguring drivers every time a hdmi capable device is being used. I also remember not needing many userland tools to use it, so it had that going for it too. Mostly hindsight though because I didn't think to question things then. On Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:57 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:52:31 -0500 > Mitt Green <mitt_gr...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > > >> Also, if you go with OSS, you need neither xfce4-volumed, nor >> xfce4-mixer, because: >> - OSS has its own mixer; >> - volume keys can be configured to be used with it. >> >> Frankly, I don't understand, why Open Sound System >> option is marked DEPRECATED in menuconfig. > > Once in my life I managed to install an OSS-only Linux, on > Manjaro-OpenRC alt-initted with Runit. No Pulse, no ALSA. It was a thing > of beauty: The simplicity was breathtaking. And yet it played Youtube > videos just fine. > > I had to "modprobe snd_mixer_oss" in /etc/runit/1, and because almost > every volume control depends on either Pulse or ALSA or both, I had to > install rexima (I think aumix might work too) as a volume control. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Take back your privacy. Switch to www.StartMail.com _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
