Re: [gentoo-user] Re:Re: Problem with sound card

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2011/10/25 Lavender <lavender_matrix@163.com>:
>>>>>You have to have the the correct drivers and alsa-utils emerge.
>>>>>Good luck
>>>> Yeah, I rebuilt my kernel according to documentation which relative
>>>> to ALSA . FInally I have configured all of them perfectly , ha,
>>>> it's really not easy :-)
>>>
>>> You should have seen how 'really not easy' ALSA was 10 years ago! ;-)
>>
>> Or that commercial linux sound driver package... I don't even remember
>> what it was called anymore.
>
> OSS I think - something like Open Sound System or some such other
> crazy thing, being it was neither Open nor most of the time for me
> produced Sound on my System. ;-)
>
> I think there is still support for it in the kernel. Go figure...

It's only been deprecated for over a decade...I can only barely
remember a time before ALSA was pulled into the mainline kernel. The
original OSS support is still in there. There's also an OSS emulation
layer for ALSA.

The name 'Open Sound System' comes from an era where 'open' normally
meant, "you can buy a license from us to use our system in your
products" and 'closed' meant "no, you can't include a subset of our
product in your product. Your customers can be our customers,
instead." The movements pushed along by ESR and RMS redefined what
'open' and 'proprietary' were taken to mean.

See also 'OpenGL', which is still trademarked, and the owners of the
trademark allow "compatible" implementations to exist.

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