Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:13:24 +0000 | From | David Vrabel <> | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach |
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Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:54:45 -0500, > Lee Revell wrote: > >>On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 19:28 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:22:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: >>> >>>>On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 18:46 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>>> >>>>>3. no ALSA drivers for the same hardware >>>>> >>>>>SOUND_SB >>>> >>>>ALSA certainly does support "100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, >>>>ESS, Jazz16)", it would be a joke if it didn't... >>> >>>That's not the problem, I should have added an explanation: >>> >>>SOUND_SB (due to SOUND_KAHLUA and SOUND_PAS) >>> >> >>Hmm. From sound/oss/kahlua.c: >> >>/* >> * Initialisation code for Cyrix/NatSemi VSA1 softaudio >> * >> * (C) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc <alan@redhat.com> >> * >> >>Why was a new OSS driver written and accepted at such a late date, when >>OSS was already deprecated? > > > You'll find out that it must be pretty easy to write kahlua driver for > ALSA, too, if you look at kahlua.c. Just need a hardware to certify > if this is really demanded...
Is this the audio on the Cyrix MediaGX (later National Semiconductor Geode GXm)? I have access to hardware with that CPUs that I can test with if someone wants to write an ALSA driver. Er... though I'm not sure what VSA version the BIOS has.
I seem to recall that the Soundblaster 16 emulation provided by the VSA code worked fine so perhaps this can be dropped entirely. I've not touched a MediaGX based board in many years so I may be remembering incorrectly. The Soundblaster 16 emulation does work fine on AMD Geode GX1 boards.
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