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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 |
| commit | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d /Documentation/sound/oss/NEWS | |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/NEWS b/Documentation/sound/oss/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a81e0ef72ae --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Linux 2.4 Sound Changes +2000-September-25 +Christoph Hellwig, <hch@infradead.org> + + + +=== isapnp support + +The Linux 2.4 Kernel does have reliable in-kernel isapnp support. +Some drivers (sb.o, ad1816.o awe_wave.o) do now support automatically +detecting and configuring isapnp devices. +If you have a not yet supported isapnp soundcard, mail me the content +of '/proc/isapnp' on your system and some information about your card +and its driver(s) so I can try to get isapnp working for it. + + + +=== soundcard resources on kernel commandline + +Before Linux 2.4 you had to specify the resources for sounddrivers +statically linked into the kernel at compile time +(in make config/menuconfig/xconfig). In Linux 2.4 the resources are +now specified at the boot-time kernel commandline (e.g. the lilo +'append=' line or everything that's after the kernel name in grub). +Read the Configure.help entry for your card for the parameters. + + +=== softoss is gone + +In Linux 2.4 the softoss in-kernel software synthesizer is no more aviable. +Use a user space software synthesizer like timidity instead. + + + +=== /dev/sndstat and /proc/sound are gone + +In older Linux versions those files exported some information about the +OSS/Free configuration to userspace. In Linux 2.3 they were removed because +they did not support the growing number of pci soundcards and there were +some general problems with this interface. + + |