Re: Sound newbie ... what is OSS, ALSA, etc all about?
I have the same card. Initially it looked to me as if it wasn't
supported by OSS, but I think it's on the list now. Particularly if
your needs are basic, it's probably easier to use the stuff in the
kernel.
As you may notice from my other posts, I've been having trouble
getting ALSA and pnp to work for awhile, though it was working at one
point! My serial port and sound card seem to conflict regardless of
the combination and sequence of options I pick.
The advice used to be to get a card that let you configure it manually
to avoid problems, so it's not clear that PCI will make your life easier.
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:53:13AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> I have a workstation with potato and adrian bunk's packages supporting
> the 2.4.14 kernel.
>
> I am running SMP with two processors on a P2B-DS motherboard. I have a
> SoundBaster AWE64 card (ISA) that I would like to get working.
>
> I started researching how to get sound working on my machine and I am
> confused about the following:
>
> * ALSA
>
> * OSS
>
> * PNP support (in the kernel or not)
>
> It seems that I have to complete several configuration steps and get
> several layers of software working to have sound function on my machine.
>
> Would someone mind explaining to me (as a Sound newbie) which of what
> appear to be competing sound system in Linux I should focus on.
>
> Is there a question of applications / tools / games supporting one or
> the other?
>
> Am I better off getting a PCI-based sound card and not having any ISA
> cards?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Randy
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