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by kllrnohj
3854 days ago
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> where other Linux distros had rock-solid and professional-quality audio subsystems and software integration Such as? Remember we're talking Linux in the 2005-era (~2.6.10-ish), not Linux today. JACK was still fairly new at that time. ALSA was still mostly broken at the time. Most stuff still wanted OSS. Basic "does sound come out of the speakers?" was often broken, and god help you if you wanted two things to play audio at the same time. And you still need to solve the driver problem, which JACK, etc... don't help with at all. |
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Um. If we're talking about 2005, we're talking about Android.
If we're talking about Android, we're talking about brand-spanking new hardware on a brand-spanking new phone.
This means that the audio driver didn't exist, which means that it was being written from scratch. This makes the "driver problem" a non-issue.
> Remember we're talking Linux in the 2005-era (~2.6.10-ish), not Linux today. ... ALSA was still mostly broken at the time. Most stuff still wanted OSS.
I never tried to do any "pro audio", [0] but that's not how I remember it. ALSA worked just fine. Anything that wanted OSS worked well enough with ALSA's OSS-compat API. I can't remember if the software mixer was around or not at the time, but I remember that when it did arrive, it eliminated that problem with single-stream sound cards.
[0] But -as I remember it- most folks doing pro audio used specialized, standalone hardware for it back then.