[aclug-L] Re: OSS license/crack?

["Clint A. Brubakken" <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My neomagic card on my laptop is not supported by also but is by OSS/Free
from what it looks like the have no interest in supporting in the future
either



On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, gLaNDix wrote:

> ALSA supports quite a few  cards...  probably just as many as OSS...  my
> AudioPCI is supported much better by ALSA than by the kernel sound
> support...
> 
> In fact, there has just been an ALSA Development Team named to get the
> API done and start work so it can be easily incorperated into the linux
> kernel...  the deadlines they gave were much sooner than the original 2.5
> devel goals they had...
> 
> "If we don't stand up to Micro$oft, who will?"
>      - The Boycott Micro$oft Web Page
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> http://www.boycott-ms.org/
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> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Dale W Hodge wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > heck, just use ALSA instead...  they are great, and are OpenSource!  : ^ )
> > > (www.alsa-project.org)...  and will soon be integrated into the kernel as
> > > the main snd drivers...
> > 
> > FWIW, ALSA no longer supports the 2.0 series kernel, and since Alan Cox is
> > handling the OSS drivers with support from RedHat, I'm don't see ALSA being
> > included in the kernel anytime soon. ALSA's FAQ states it may be included in
> > the 2.5 development series, but is still a ways off.
> > 
> > I think it really depends on your sound card and kernel version. The 2.2.x
> > kernel handles sound much easier than the 2.0.x series.  Whether you use the
> > kernel OSS drivers or ALSA will depend on what sound card chipset you have.
> > Some cards are better supported in ALSA, others in OSS.
> > 
> > --dwh
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Clint Brubakken
Developer, Computer Science Services Group, LLC
Dictator-for-Life Air Capital Linux Users Group 
Wichita, KS
cabrubak@xxxxxxx
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