Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:30:58 +0200 | From | Richard Knutsson <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.22 patch] more scheduled OSS driver removal |
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Lee Revell wrote: > On 3/25/07, Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >> > This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that: >> > - have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions >> and >> > - whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20. >> > >> Sorry for this late respond >> >> Is sound/oss/emu10k1/ really ready to be replaced? According to a friend >> of mine, who got the hardware, the ALSA still lacks feature provided by >> the OSS-driver. He mentioned some sort of programmable memory (forgot >> the name for that) with whom you can run small programs to manipulate >> the sounds (adding echo and such). > > He's referring to EMU DSP manager. (emudspmgr I think it's called). > The ALSA equivalent is ld10k1. It might not be as mature as the OSS > equivalent, but are we really going to keep obsolete drivers in the > kernel just because the userspace tools for the old driver are more > mature? Good! I forward that info to him. BTW, I did not mean to suggest we keep the OSS instead of ALSA. Just voiced if it is _ready_ to be replaced. But since there is no regression report filed (believed he already made one) I will pipe down :) > >> Also, he got problems with getting >> more accurate control of the volume (guess this is more a userland >> issue). >> He seems to have done his homework but only got to pages where other >> peoples had the same problem. >> > > I guess he's referring to the well known "Master volume only controls > front output" problem. This really does need to be resolved, as many > other ALSA drivers are effected. <rant_mode=on> Isn't this quite a basic feature?! Is there somewhere to monitor the progress on this? <rant_mode=off>
Thanks for your help! Richard Knutsson
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