On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 15:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:07 PM Alexandru N. Barloiu <a...@dale.ro> > wrote: > > OSS4 is a set of proprietary patches. You would need support in > > kernel, > > That's the problem... > > > and support at an application level to use it. Not sure if USE=oss > > will > > work with OSS4, but one thing I know for sure is that you would > > need to > > get the patches from 4front technologies. And given that they keep > > moving the license... > I was under the impression that it is open source (contrary to > version > 3)? Wrong?
It was gpl. Then they moved it to proprietary. Then they become insignificant and changed it back. For me, that's sign enough that I don't want anything to do with it. > > why would you? > > desperation? ALSA is 22 years old, and they couldn't find the time > to > write documentation. It will not happen. When it works, it works. It > works for me re hearing sound, but no joy with my recently bought > micro. Maybe it's something as trivial as a faulty cable, but the > current plague doesn't make it easier to get a replacement to try... > > Jorge It might have been invented 22 years ago, but that doesn't mean that it didn't change/improve over that time. What do you mean "no joy with micro"? Maybe it could be easier to fix this than use OSS.
