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On 10/25/2011 08:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> On 10/25/2011 07:17 PM, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> |
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>>> wrote: |
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>>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Paul Hartman |
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>>>>> |
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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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>>>> |
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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. |
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>> OSS is the standard sound system for Unix still to this day though. |
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>> Everybody uses it, except Linux. |
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>> It's GPL by the way. I actually use it on my main PC ;-) On supported |
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>> sound cards, it works much better than ALSA. Not the version in the kernel, |
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>> of course, that one is deprecated. The newest version is v4 and is only |
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>> available out-of-kernel. |
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> I imagine that it's support for the cards it supported in that time |
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> period was probably better than ALSA. I came to Linux looking for a |
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> platform to replace Windows to support Avid's ProTools. As I soon |
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> learned that wasn't going to happen, at least not soon, and it hasn't |
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> changed in the 10-15 years I've been using Linux. However in those |
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> days my need for ALSA was driven by OSS not supporting any sound card |
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> hardware that was of interest to people recording music. ALSA was at |
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> least trying, and has gotten much better over the years with things |
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> like Jack and rt-sources which easily outperforms Windows in terms of |
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> latency. |
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That's true. Though I judge by desktop needs on my machine. The lack |
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of a per-application volume mixer in ALSA is really frustrating. And if |
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you bark about it, you're told to install PulseAudio, which is another |
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can of worms entirely :-/ I guess I'm gonna be using OSSv4 for as long |
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as that old Soundblaster Live I have here refuses to die. |
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