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From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
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Brendan Bartlett wrote:

>  I am using a BT848 frame grabber card under linux and I'm not getting any
> sound with the ALSA drivers.  Most probably because the bt848 code wants
> to talk to low-level OSS drivers.  (modprobe msp3400 [the stereo module]
> loads sound.o and sound.o.  Even with snd-pcm1-oss.o loaded, I get no
> sound).

Yep, that's because older BTTV's want to present a mixer device
to applications and do this via OSS hooks. Newer versions
of msp3400 do this using the soundcore hooks, and therefore
neither depend on OSS nor ALSA.

Tom

