Re: Corel and Debian [sound config?]
> Yes, but Alsa has also a library interface above the kernel layer,
> so it *might* be possible for some arch's to "emulate" that. But if
> some sound architectures are alot different in concepts, you can
> forget it (alsa library requires at least raw audio streams with
> some frequency, midi music data and some concept of instruments,
> etc).
That seems to be the problem... Sound on m68k (Amiga and Atari) is
just "dma sound", i.e. playing an mono/stereo audio stream with
certain frequences. Nothing else, i.e. no built-in MIDI, no
instruments, ...
We already had a hard time to implement this in the kernel with an OSS
interface :-)
Roman
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