Re: Autoloading of OSS sound modules (ALSA vs. OSS)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:30:11 +0100 (BST)

> Well...I spent a lot of time working to get my AWE32 working under OSS
> using "autoloading". I mean *lots* I went to every web page that was
> brought up under altavista, etc.

Look in Documentation/sound/AWE32 ...

> I'm just curious, what's the opinion of the other kernel hackers regarding
> ALSA vs. OSS?

The top level sound handler allows OSS and non OSS modules to coexist if they
use its APIs. Indeed the ES1370/1371, SonicVibes and new TB drivers are not
OSS drivers.

So if ALSA uses that API all will co-exist

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