> I have been wrestling with sound, particularly with trying to get the
> stuff to work as a module. The documentation in drivers/sound is mostly
> irrelevant and erroneous, and the docs on www.opensound.com were about the
> same. I was, however, repeatedly reminded that I could buy the commercial
> version which would solve all of my problems. I feel that this is rather
> tasteless and am surprised that such commercialisation has been admitted
> to the kernel source tree.
This is probably somewhat off-topic but I tend to share significant
concerns about sound support in the kernel.
I have been somewhat disappointed by the 'commercial' sound solution
for Linux. I have a number of machines that came equipped with the
Ensoniq AudioPCI card and I have been extremely frustrated with the
test-drive versions of the software available from OSS.
My primary need is to be able to digitalize voice and I have spent
about 2-3 months trying beta after beta only to discover that each one
fails to record. The same card and microphone setup in the same
machine records just fine under W95 so it appearas to be a driver
problem. I have reported the situation numerous times and get told
each time to download the current beta and that 'this will be fixed'.
IMHO we are suffering from the fact that we truely don't have an open
source sound solution in the kernel. Instead we seem to have a
'come-on' for a commercial product.
I have been watching Alan's efforts with the sound drivers with some
effort. Hopefully after the re-write there will be the opportunity
for developers to bring drivers for newer sound cards into the
kernel. I am not sure what impact the PNP requirements for these
cards will have but hopefully we can make progress with the sound card
vendors like we have with other hardward vendors.
Greg
}-- End of excerpt from Jim Bray
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