I am seriously considering implementing OSS4 as an alternative to PulseAudio/ALSA in the next major version of infinityOS. I would like it if users of Ubuntu could have the same benefits in terms of functionality, but at the very least my users will have (and do have) a sound system that works out of the box for games.
Ryan On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010 21:52:25 -0400, Ryan Oram <r...@infinityos.net> wrote: >> Emulators are a subset of games. They use the same libraries and >> frameworks. If they do not work, games will not likely not work. >> > If they do not work, it is more likely that the game is broken in its > usage of the underlying hardware than PulseAudio. PulseAudio does things > with audio that older (i.e. broken) applications do not expect. If there > are issues, this is probably the result of applications making invalid > assumptions about the nature of the underlying device (now > PulseAudio). > > Audio has worked perfectly on all my hardware with day-to-day > applications for the last several (>= 2) releases. Certainly, the > transition to PulseAudio was a little rough (which distributions deserve > a little blame for), but almost all of the issues have since been fixed, > even on broken hardware. Without PulseAudio, Ubuntu would be entirely > unable to compete with Windows or OS X on the basis of its audio > subsystem. > >> Besides, do I have to configure my sound system to play a game on >> Windows or Mac OS X? No. >> > No, if you have issues, bring it up with the game's/library's > upstream. If your game needs to be working today, use pasuspender as a > temporary workaround. But please, this discussion has been had dozens of > times before in various forms; PulseAudio is here to stay for the > benefit of us all. If you have issues, stop whining and help fix them. > > - Ben > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
