Re: Re: GPE 3.0

lamikr <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:32:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.gpe,gmane.comp.handhelds.matchbox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Well in a sense it does not matter what sound system GPE uses, as there
> are very little applications using sound. I believe ALSA support is
> working when it is needed
>   
Most of those use sounds via /dev/dsp that comes from the OSS.
Also the mixers use the OSS API for controlling sound level.
In theory all what is needed on top of the alsa driver is the OSS compat
driver that
already exist in the kernel, but in reality the OSS compat does not work
on arm platforms on top of Alsa
(at least for omap) and would be unneeded extra layer anyway.
So my opinion is that it is better to alsa directly. (That's what I did
for the gomunicator rtones)

Mika