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

[Duncan]

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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