Re: [Squeak-VMdev] OSS update

[Ian P. <ian...@in...>]

Hi Lex,

I figure you might be interested in this.  Last night I downloaded and
built a 2.4.18 kernel followed by the very latest ALSA (cvs co from their
development tree) with OSS compatibility enabled.  It works like a dream!
In particular select() is working *exactly* as it aught to, at least on
PPC.  I haven't checked on PC h/w yet, but since the ALSA OSS
compatibility is identical for all platforms I see no reason why it
shouldn't work perfectly.

Unless you can think of some reason why this might be a bad idea (and
given the _vast_ improvement over the native Linux OSS drivers) I propose
that the Squeak OSS sound code be written/tested against the ALSA OSS
compatibility driver instead.  (After all, it works just like the OSS docs
say it should -- which is manifestly not the case with the native sound
drivers.)  Anybody who has problems with sound can then be pointed at ALSA
as the solution.

I might have a go at native ALSA support too (just too see what it smells
like ;).

BTW (on a totally different topic): I really like your idea to map mod1-4
to Command and mod5 to Option (so that people at least have the chance to
recover the latter with some xmodmap gymnastics).  It's on the to-do list.

Regards,

Ian