Hi. >>>No. Everything on Solaris uses the Solaris native sound API except for >>>possibly quick-hack ports of applications from Linux. Doing anything >>>else would as you say be insane and break things like device >>>redirection on Sunrays. >>> >> >>Device redirection is just "writing to a different /dev node" - on >>Solaris and Linux. IIRC, the API is the same. > > This whole "OSS is cross platform" thing seems mostly like a cop out by > lazy developers who can't be bothered to grok ALSA. None of the usual > offenders (Skype, Quake 3, Doom 3) run on any other Unix platform so why > not just use ALSA? > > It does not help that the most problematic apps seem to be proprietary > (most likely they are abusing the OSS API in a way that no one > anticipated). What's actually funny (well actually it's not) is that Doom3 for instance works great using the OSS emul of ALSA but not using native ALSA for some reason. I haven't reported it cause it's a commercial program without source. ( The sound stutters all the time, and not just when moving, etc, but all the time ) // Stefan