Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 11/20/08 14:27, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could somebody give some insights in to how is OSS related to Alsa? When

I hate to sound rude, but did you apply any effort in researching 
this yourself?

> a headset is connected via USB, how is it supposed to be detected, as an
> OSS device or as a USB device?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System#OSS_in_relation_to_ALSA

   OSS is the standard up through the 2.4 series of official
   (kernel.org) Linux kernels. ALSA was added starting with 2.5,
   and in those versions, Linux kernel authors marked OSS as
   deprecated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture

    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (known by the acronym ALSA)
   is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open
   Sound System (OSS) for providing device drivers for sound cards.
   Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were
   automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and graceful
   handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it
   has largely met.

> And can I remove OSS in favor of Alsa?

Yes.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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