Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Bad performance on doom3 with alsa and oss

[Etienne Imguimbert]

Hi Duncan,

I've googled also this module and all what I get is "removing this option".
No matter, I will try to compile alsa support in the kernel, with rtc time
reference, as I did not find where to activate this option using emerge to
install alsa...
Thanks for your answer

Best regards,
Etienne


2006/1/24, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>:
>
> Etienne Imguimbert posted <756628910601240745t1f64108cq@××××××××××.com>,
> excerpted below,  on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:45:07 +0100:
>
> > I confirm, I don't have any snd-ioctl32 module in the module tree of my
> > current kernel. Althought, sound works with doom3 (32 bits app) but is
> very
> > noisy. I've installed alsa with emerge, not directly in the kernel...
> >
> > I've searched in the alsa documentation, also in the kernel
> documentation.
> > Nothing found about that :-(
> > Has someone any information about this module?
> > Thank you in advance
>
> I did a check when the module first came up, and was going to post, but
> decided not to since I don't really know that much about it, and am not
> much of a gamer, either. I figured someone else more into games
> would have something more useful to say than I could offer.  However, as
> that mysterious someone hasn't stepped forward...
>
> As best I can tell, the info on the module is for kernel 2.4 and probably
> early 2.6.  I found a reference discussing removing the option, since it
> was already built-into something else (I think alsa, but was just quick
> scanning and may have gotten that wrong). IIRC the date on that was March
> or April of last year (2005). You should be able to google and get the
> same sort of information I was coming up with -- as I said, I don't have
> any real knowledge on the subject -- and googling isn't a talent exclusive
> to me.  <g>
>
> In any case, I /think/ it's now built-into something else, but whether
> it's enabled there by default, or requires something to toggle it on, or
> whether the API has changed form and no longer exists in the form the game
> uses... I can't say.
>
> I /can/ say I was just googling the module name.  It's possible there's
> more available on gaming forums or the like, that you'd know more about
> than I.  I can /also/ confirm that I don't have such a kernel option here,
> that I could see, anyway, so it doesn't appear to be that you are simply
> overlooking whats there, because it's not.
>
> As I said, I was /hoping/ someone who could be rather more helpful would
> post, but that's what I know of the subject, FWIW.
>
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