ALSA driver

[Joerg Mayer]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:40:31PM +0200, Eric Pouech wrote:
> > OK, that is mostly the disappointment speaking
> > that I still won't be able to run wine with Alsa.
> The point is on the current installed base of ALSA drivers
...
> It just means that 0.9 installed base is almost 0 (in percentage).

With Suse 8.0 now shipping 0.9 and 0.9 being in the 2.5 development
kernels, the userbase will start to grow fast.

> So, spending time right now on 0.9 is not the top priority (at least for
> me).

That is your privilege as author :-)

So there is one more sound module for wine to be written, as the api has
changed significantly between 0.5 and 0.9.

> OTOH, since the OSS emulation in ALSA 0.5 is broken, the point is whether
> we fix it (using a pure ALSA 0.5 driver in Wine), or let users live with
> that (TG has disabled the HAL support

Yeah, I guess I automatically assumed that alsa 0.9 would be broken with
respect to mmap too :-/

  Ciao
           Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer at loplof.de>
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