On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, James Oakley wrote:
On November 10, 2001 06:40 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
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I actually see no need for OSS unless you have a REALLY off the wall card. Alsa supports SO many cards now that OSS isn't actually needed in most cases.
When you regularly upgrade your kernel, ALSA gets *really* annoying. I went back to OSS on my work laptop because I simply don't have the time to waste.
I simply download the latest version whenever I upgrade and I've never had any trouble as long as I stay away from 'ac' and 'pre' kernels. Mantel's are fine.
4Front's tech-support is great, too.
I'll second that last remark. I remember when I was having trouble getting OSS to work on a previous Linux installation. One evening, I dashed off an e-mail to 4Front describing the problem. I exchanged e-mails with them, and after about 10 e-mails (five in each direction) or so, it was working fine. Maybe that doesn't sound all that remarkable -- but this e-mail exchange took about an hour and a half! Plus: imagine my surprise when I got an issue of Linux Journal not long after this, and found that I'd been conversing by e-mail with one of OSS's primary developers (Dev, I think his name is). I'd like to see ANYBODY top that kind of service! Regards, Tim Sunrise in Stockholm today: 7:35 Sunset in Stockholm today: 15:28 My rail transit photos at http://www.kynerd.nu