On 10/25/2011 08:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
On 10/25/2011 07:17 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Paul Hartman
Or that commercial linux sound driver package... I don't even remember
what it was called anymore.
OSS I think - something like Open Sound System or some such other
crazy thing, being it was neither Open nor most of the time for me
produced Sound on my System. ;-)
I think there is still support for it in the kernel. Go figure...
It's only been deprecated for over a decade...I can only barely
remember a time before ALSA was pulled into the mainline kernel.
OSS is the standard sound system for Unix still to this day though.
Everybody uses it, except Linux.
It's GPL by the way. I actually use it on my main PC ;-) On supported
sound cards, it works much better than ALSA. Not the version in the kernel,
of course, that one is deprecated. The newest version is v4 and is only
available out-of-kernel.
I imagine that it's support for the cards it supported in that time
period was probably better than ALSA. I came to Linux looking for a
platform to replace Windows to support Avid's ProTools. As I soon
learned that wasn't going to happen, at least not soon, and it hasn't
changed in the 10-15 years I've been using Linux. However in those
days my need for ALSA was driven by OSS not supporting any sound card
hardware that was of interest to people recording music. ALSA was at
least trying, and has gotten much better over the years with things
like Jack and rt-sources which easily outperforms Windows in terms of
latency.
That's true. Though I judge by desktop needs on my machine. The lack
of a per-application volume mixer in ALSA is really frustrating. And if
you bark about it, you're told to install PulseAudio, which is another
can of worms entirely :-/ I guess I'm gonna be using OSSv4 for as long
as that old Soundblaster Live I have here refuses to die.
