Hi Frans,
I think you did not understand my problem.
LM installed a sound driver that seemed to work fine with my onboard
audio -via82cxxx. I don't know if this driver is an OSS driver. But some
apps -er games, namely quake2 and 3- wouldn't work with it.
I installed ALSA drivers following the ALSA HOWTO-basically editing
modules.conf since LM seems to provide all drivers already compiled- and I
had to install OSS compatibility drivers also for the games to work.
Apparently quake wants to write to /dev/dsp and it seems that only OSS
drivers habilitate that.
Even though now sound is running well in my box, the ALSA utils can't
detect the ALSA drivers, and it seems that is why the LM script can't load
it at boot time. I'm loading the drivers presently with a modprobe in
rc.local.
--Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky
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-----Mensagem Original-----
De: "Frans Ketelaars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> What applications do you think will work with ALSA and not OSS/free?
> ALSA provides OSS/free emulation, but at this moment only has
> advantages, AFAIK, when you:
>
> - have a soundcard only supported by ALSA
> - have a 'advanced' soundcard only fully supported with the ALSA API
> - have an application that _only_ works with ALSA
> (not many _now_, but ALSA is moving from the 0.5 series to 0.9 and
> as the API stabilizes, more applications will natively (only)
> support ALSA.
> - for some reason, in your situation, ALSA sounds better, or has more
> functionality
> - are looking to the future :)
>
>
> Btw: I'm using ALSA 0.5.10b with Mandrake 8.0 ;-)
>
> -Frans
