Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALSA vs OSS drivers
On 27 Sep 2001, Josh Green wrote: On Thu, 2001-09-27 at 17:59, Luis Pablo Gasparotto wrote: I would like to know your opinion about wich is the best driver. I have two soundcards: SB PCI 512 (emu10k1) + TB Santa Cruz (CS46xx) Midi synth doesn't matter. Lateny issues and sound quality are very important. ALSA drivers are what you want. All your OSS programs will work fine too. yes, it's what i want, too, but not all my oss programs work *at all* with alsa. specifically, jmax (2.4.12) does not work with oss-emu, it supposedly works with alsa 0.5, but not with 0.9, and i believe that 0.5 has poor ice1712 (envy24) support. fwiw, dave
Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALSA vs OSS drivers
ALSA drivers are what you want. All your OSS programs will work fine too. yes, it's what i want, too, but not all my oss programs work *at all* with alsa. specifically, jmax (2.4.12) does not work with oss-emu, it supposedly works with alsa 0.5, but not with 0.9, and i believe that 0.5 has poor ice1712 (envy24) support. please be sure to differentiate between the current state of affairs and how ALSA is supposed to be. if oss-emu fails under certain conditions, thats a bug in ALSA, not a design issue. it needs to be reported (properly), and it will hopefully be addressed in due course. full binary OSS-compatibility is an integral part of the ALSA design space. --p
Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA or JACK or...(was: LADMEA revisited...)
JACK *doesn't care(know)*: its only job is to *interconnect* and schedule things that need to be scheduled, with the when and how much of scheduling being left to a driver. that's why i think JACK should be renamed to LAIC, which stands for Linux Audio InterConnect 1) there's nothing Linux specific about it. 2) JACK = JACK Audio Connection Kit 3) Most people would have no idea how to say LAIC 4) Think you know pro-audio on Linux? You don't know JACK! is just too good to pass up, even for people like myself for don't watch TV in the USA :) --p
Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALSA vs OSS drivers
On Sunday 30 September 2001 12:55 pm, you wrote: I've been happily using the commercial OSS driver ( http://www.4front-tech.com ). Ditto here. I'd rather spend my time recording/playing music than compiling/configuring a sound card. OSS commercial is rather painless. ljp
Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADMEA revisited (was: LAAGA and supporting programs)
I haven't kept up with the specifics of these design discussions, but it sounds like your goals are very close to the goals of the BeOS Media Kit. Have you read the Media Kit's documentation and API, and if so, have they influenced your design at all? If you haven't read them before, they're available at online [0]. yes I have read them, and though they did not directly influence the design, they were a confirming instance. Mac OS-X CoreAudio was probably slight closer to a direct influence, along with all the Win/MacOS plugin APIs like VST, MAS, DirectX etc and ASIO/EASI. --p
