Re: [gentoo-releng] oss in make.defaults for 2006.0?

[Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 11:00 +0100, Michiel de Bruijne wrote:
> On Friday 25 November 2005 10:24, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > Michiel de Bruijne wrote:
> > > Now that useflags are evaluated for the 2006.0 profile (e.g. nptl and
> > > apache2) I wonder if it's still necessary to have oss in make.defaults?
> > > The replacement (alsa) is preferred by kernel developers for almost 2
> > > years. Time to remove it from the 2006.0 profile?
> >
> > I'd have a look at how many software are using oss only and how many
> > have good alsa support, not to mention which drivers are oss only or
> > work better as oss.


Theres a few issues here, at least Trident and via chipsets work good in
alsa. however, due to the difficulty for programmers to use the
alsa-api, you actually get -better- sound (less glitches and buffer
underruns) if you use alsa-drivers + alsa-oss emulation.

This is clearly visible in Fex.  amarok (gstreamer backend) and other
players, especially under higher system loads. (yes, even with a
preemptive kernel)



> For the programs that are oss-only a useflag shouldn't even exists, because
> it's not optional.
> All systems I maintain (about 15 different hardware/software specs) have -oss
> and work as expected. I'm interested if someone on this list has
> hardware/software where oss is preferred over alsa?
> Does anybody knows if the default setup of other distros include
> "oss-compiled" packages?

Yeah, they do. At least last I checked both ubuntu and Fedora Core had
oss as their default sound-sinks for many things. The transition period
will take ages I'm afraid :/


//Spider


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