Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10

From: Martin Schlemmer
Date: Sun Mar 13 2005 - 19:46:48 EST


On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 17:26 -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> Patrick McFarland <pmcfarland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:31 pm, Greg Stark wrote:
> > > OSS Audio doesn't work properly for Quake3 in 2.6.10 but it worked in
> > > 2.6.6. In fact I have the same problems in 2.6.9-rc1 so I assume 2.6.9 is
> > > affected as well. This is with the Intel i810 drivers.
> >
> > Why are you not using ALSA?
>
> Well frankly because whenever I tried it it didn't work. The i810 drivers were
> *completely* broken in the 2.6 kernel I original installed, 2.6.5 I think.
>
> In any case I understood that Quake doesn't work with alsa drivers because it
> depends on mmapped output which they don't support at all. Or something like
> that. I gave up on them when I found OSS worked reliably.
>

Quake3 works fine here with alsa and the oss emulation ...


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Martin Schlemmer

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