Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Curtis Rey <crey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tuesday 16 September 2003 07:38, Sergio Dominguez wrote:
> Why then in the new kernels 2.4. there is no more ALSA and only OSS (not in
> the SUSE one, in the official ones)
>
> Sergio
>

Alsa isn't included in the vanilla 2.4.x kernels.  It is officially scheduled 
for the 2.6 series as the official sound mods and eventually OSS will be 
phased out and any OSS compatibility that's needed will be via the ALSA mods.

As far as SuSE kernels including the ALSA kernel mods, this is due to the fact 
that SuSE folds in the 2.5/2.6 stuff into their kernels.  SuSE's dev team has 
a few of the kernel devs on it so they can more easily fold in these 
features. 

Case in point.  Look at the 2.4.21-x kernels from SuSE and compare them 
between the 2.4 vanilla and the 2.6 test5 kernel.  You most likely see a fair 
amount of features from the 2.6 series.  Unfortunately, things like the 
emu-tools for SBLive cards require OSS.  There is a way to get it to work 
with ALSA but it takes a fairly knowledgable hacker to tweek the source (i.e. 
alsa and priviate session block out the emu-tools - hence no go).

As far as some programs that still insist on requiring the OSS mods, this is 
upto the devs of that specific package to update them for ALSA compatiiblity.  
If the project is fallow (not maintained) then it's not likely to happen 
(which can be a real downer since some older packages were pretty cool and 
are fading away).

Cheers, Curtis.
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