Re: ALSA vs. OSS

[Raphaël RIGO]

Markus Hästbacka wrote:

> Hello list,
> I wonder what's the difference with ALSA and OSS. I have tried both,
> someone may say that ALSA is much better than OSS, but with my
> experience with ALSA I wouldn't say that, I would probably say it should
> be removed from the kernel totally.
>
> So, what are the reasons for ALSA to become "default" in 2.6?
> I know it gives somekind of nice features, but ALSA didn't let me to
> open two sound sources (like XMMS and Quake3) at the same time, so I
> guess it is not really done yet, or is it?
>
> Ignore this if you don't care.
> Thanks,
> Markus.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php3?company=Generic&card=Generic&chip=Generic&module=Generic#softmix
This will tell you how to enable software mixing with ALSA.
I'm not able to give a perfect answer for the reasons why ALSA has been chosen 
to replace OSS so i will let someone else answer :)

Raphaël.
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