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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
To: Pablo Casal <pcasal@netlabs.com.uy>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Pablo Casal wrote:

> Hello, I'm new to ALSA; anyway I read that one of the main goals for this driver
> was to be OSS/Lite compatible. Which it happens to be at least with the PCM
> (/dev/dsp) and the mixer.
> 
> The problem I found (version 0.1.4) was that /dev/sndstat does not apear
> to be compatible with the OSS driver; if I cat this device I will only get
> this line :
> 
> Sound driver - compatibility text for gmod : 3.5
> 
> There are some programs like multitrack wich get your system sound
> configuration from /dev/sndstat; I was thinking of writing a patch for this
> driver as to get OSS /dev/sndstat compatibility, but first I wanted to
> ask you (developers) what do you think about this.

ALSA driver have enhanced /dev/sndstat interface in latest 0.2.0-pre
versions of driver, but multitrack isn't still working. I don't know why,
but author of this program will support directly ALSA driver in next
release..

							Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
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