Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:50:12 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, perex@suse.cz,
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal
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>The problem with using OSS compatibility, at least on this machine with ALSA 
>1.0.9, is that if you use it you automatically lose the software mixing 
>capabilities of ALSA, so it really is less than ideal.
>

Well, I am able to open /dev/dsp multiple times here without problems.
(Is /dev/dsp soft- or hardmixing?)


Jan Engelhardt
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