Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

On 1/21/08, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> It may be open, but it isn't much of a standard.
> I've only found one implementation, csound itself.
> There are no hardware implementations.

See, just because a standard is less used than another standard it
doesn't make it worse.  It just turns out less people bothered to
support it.  Striving for the best should always be our goal,
humanity's goal.  So let's not use that as an argument against Csound,
which by the way, I had never heard of until this thread.

This thread started because 1) ALSA is awful, 2) There is no OSS
emulation in the XO which breaks some programs, and 3) IMO, I would
love if we could seriously discuss switching OSS for ALSA.  See, ALSA
is a worse standard for audio in Linux.

Again, just because it's not the favored standard, doesn't mean it
shouldn't be considered.

Many reasons were already pointed out, but I would like in my last
message to this thread, to point out the pratical reasons:

* It's easier to maintain
* It's easier to write software to work with it
* It uses much less resources than ALSA, and we are trying to spare
resources on this project
* It is a bad idea to use workarounds, emulation, and frameworks all
to go around problems in ALSA

Take that as you will.

-Ivo