ALSA, OSS and the pointless of switching to Pulse [Was: Paris summit]

[Paul Sladen]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:23 +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Multiple-open OSS to an ALSA backend needs writing---there are no two ways
> > about it. 
> How would you write a multiple-open OSS driver

In the same way as /dev/pts.

> I think we should drop ALSA OSS emulation in favour of /dev/dsp being a
> user-space character device provided by some kind of mixer

Yes, it needs a userspace mixing solution in the middle;  be that 'dmix' or
'esd'.

	-Paul
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