\begin{Dean Hamstead}
> ALSA was spawned from drivers written for a card
> (name eludes me) to exploit its potential more fully.
the authors are all from the gravis ultrasound project
since the GUS (you see, i just had to get one) was one
of the first cards to have wavetable stuff, etc. the
OSS interface (simple audio streams) just wasn't good enough.
alsa is sort of a more general rewrite. comes with a libalsa, so
user programs are easier to write.
> ALSA isnt a kernel patch.
kernel modules
> If the ALSA team hasnt sent a patch then i dont
> see it going in.
i heard rumours the sound was going to be overhauled in 2.5
there was talk of either using alsa or doing a new one from scratch.
i'm thinking they go with alsa.
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