On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:16:47PM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
I'm working on docs for ossaudiodev, and I thought I'd ask here before bugging the OSS people: does anyone know which operating systems use OSS (Open Sound System) as the standard audio interface? I know Linux up to 2.4 does, as do some (all?) versions of FreeBSD.
I'd say 'recent'. I don't recall when it was added, definately a while back, but the oldest machine I have (FreeBSD 4.2) has OSS/Free. From googling I get the impression that it's been there since 3.x, so 'recently' definately holds. Likewise, googling shows OpenBSD also uses OSS/Free -- the commercial OSS installation manual tells you to remove references to OSS/Free from the kernel :) And there's a boatload of supported platforms in the commercial OSS of course, see www.opensound.com. But I don't suggest we try and plug OSS :)
Anyone know precisely which 2.5.x version of Linux dropped OSS in favour of ALSA?
OSS wasn't dropped (not yet anyway), ALSA was added. Also, ALSA has an OSS
emulation mode, so I think it's safe to say you need to 'have OSS or ALSA
with OSS API emulation' enabled.
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Thomas Wouters