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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Paul Hartman |
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> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> 2011/10/25 Lavender <lavender_matrix@×××.com>: |
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>>>>>You have to have the the correct drivers and alsa-utils emerge. |
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>>>>>Good luck |
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>>>> Yeah, I rebuilt my kernel according to documentation which relative |
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>>>> to ALSA . FInally I have configured all of them perfectly , ha, |
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>>>> it's really not easy :-) |
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>>> |
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>>> You should have seen how 'really not easy' ALSA was 10 years ago! ;-) |
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>> Or that commercial linux sound driver package... I don't even remember |
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>> what it was called anymore. |
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> OSS I think - something like Open Sound System or some such other |
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> crazy thing, being it was neither Open nor most of the time for me |
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> produced Sound on my System. ;-) |
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> I think there is still support for it in the kernel. Go figure... |
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It's only been deprecated for over a decade...I can only barely |
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remember a time before ALSA was pulled into the mainline kernel. The |
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original OSS support is still in there. There's also an OSS emulation |
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layer for ALSA. |
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The name 'Open Sound System' comes from an era where 'open' normally |
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meant, "you can buy a license from us to use our system in your |
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products" and 'closed' meant "no, you can't include a subset of our |
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product in your product. Your customers can be our customers, |
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instead." The movements pushed along by ESR and RMS redefined what |
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'open' and 'proprietary' were taken to mean. |
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See also 'OpenGL', which is still trademarked, and the owners of the |
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trademark allow "compatible" implementations to exist. |
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:wq |