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On 10/25/2011 07:17 PM, Michael Mol wrote: |
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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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>>> 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. |
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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 |
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kernel, of course, that one is deprecated. The newest version is v4 and |
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is only available out-of-kernel. |
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