[alsa-devel] Alsa OSS - who is maintaining it?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:46:09 +0200,
Stefan de Konink wrote:
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> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:45:56 +0200,
> > Stefan de Konink wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm looking for the maintainers of the Alsa OSS layer. It seems it is
> >> getting more seriously broken each month. The last serious updates were
> >> almost 7 months ago by tiwai and perex.
> >
> > There was another fix for 64bit ops.
> 
> Point taken ;)
> 
> >> Dev must have noticed the 'skips' on the end of an OSS stream. The
> >> complete broken big endian emulation and so on. What is currently
> >> happening in this area?
> >
> > No, I don't know of such problems.
> > Could you give pointers?
> 
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2763
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> So take a random powerpc try to play something with OSS emulation. And
> the sound has an endian problem.
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> Almost every application with OSS that I run has an end buffer issues.
> After playing it, alsa fills up the buffer with the last sound that was
> played.

Did you try other drivers, such as usb-audio?

And, you're using user-space alsa-oss wrapper (e.g. via aoss wrapper),
right?  The user-space emulation and kernel-space emulation are
totally different, so I have to know what you actually tried.


Takashi