Ossv4 is broken for me, but ALSA works perfectly fine. With OSSv4 sound is completly distorted. It is a mess between high level white noise and some other noises. Unusbale.
FP in kernel is idiotic for a lot of reasons you can easily find on lkml - and FP in kernel is completly unneeded for sound.
I have read the threead. I have seen sound and video in sync with alsa, with and without dmix. And I have seen OSSv4 fucking up my hardware so hard, that I had to do a cold boot to get the soundcard back to work again. Something ALSA never did.
OSSv4 is broken. Broken by design and implementation. Just because it seems to work for you does not mean that it is the right choice. Or a good choice.
FP in kernel is idiotic for a lot of reasons you can easily find on lkml - and FP in kernel is completly unneeded for sound.
I have read the threead. I have seen sound and video in sync with alsa, with and without dmix. And I have seen OSSv4 fucking up my hardware so hard, that I had to do a cold boot to get the soundcard back to work again. Something ALSA never did.
OSSv4 is broken. Broken by design and implementation. Just because it seems to work for you does not mean that it is the right choice. Or a good choice.
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