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On 06/12/2009 10:52 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Freitag 12 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 06/12/2009 09:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>> [...] |
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>>> nothing with none exception. I had to set up dmix a long time ago, then |
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>>> it worked automagically.. but blocking apps? nope. |
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>> Without dmix everything blocks. After I've set it up, I was still |
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>> ending up with applications going silent while some other sound was |
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>> playing; |
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> except that you don't have to set up dmix for years. It works out of the box. |
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Well, I remember it differently. I had to configure it and it kept |
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breaking. |
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>> I once even got a system lock-up |
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>> caused by ATI's fglrx driver but OSS4 had the music still playing even |
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>> though the whole system had gone to nirvana. |
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> that is not unique to oss... |
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ALSA skipped sound a lot. I don't consider hearing music while the |
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system is gone a "feature", just an indication that it will never skip, |
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no matter how hard you try. |
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>> Another factor for me (but I guess most others aren't affected) is that |
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>> I like the OSS API much better. I wrote a minimal wav player in 10 |
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>> minutes. Have you ever looked at the ALSA API? Don't :P It's a piece |
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>> of crap. There are literally thousands of functions, all doing the same |
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>> thing but still not quite right... Also, OSS is standard across |
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>> different Unix-like systems, while ALSA is Linux-only. All this (and |
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>> especially the easy to code for OSS API) results in OSS support in |
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>> applications to work quite better (Wine, for example). |
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> wine is a broken POS - so not really a good example. |
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My point was that since OSS is easier to support than ALSA, there are |
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less problems to be expected. |
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And, ALSA is not portable. It's tied to Linux. I like to support more |
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open systems. |
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>> So to sum it up, OSS looks like the better system to me. I never had |
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>> problems with it and therefore I always recommend it. |
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> and I had a lot of problems with it, felt ripped of and never recommend it. |
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I doubt it you ever used it. |
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> IMHO sound daemons are inherently broken. A stupid bandaid to fix a stupid |
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> problem. |
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On that one, we agree. |
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