oss4 not compilable on gentoo

[ossuserr]

Igor, what speakers are you using to listen to your hi-res audio i wonder? Because as far as i know large pro monitors are usually flat from 45 hz to 22000 hz and very large expensive ones from 30 to 25000-30000. So my question is how are you going to benefit from 96000\2 = 48000 and higher rates if your sound-producing equipment (speakers) simple do not reproduce that rate? You seem to be stuck in placebo belief of prevalance of the OSS driver.

Yes i told that alsa sounds dead. But DEAD is not equal to DISTORTED. On the contrary there is a commond belief that honest flat response sounds dead and it is true of course because we are not robots and we need variations. It's the same as dispute of analog vs digital. Thus OSS may sound more lively not due to its higher quality but lack of quality ie some unrevealed pleasant distortions. Also i can't make any tests on that bad audigy card because OSS does not support p16v. As for emu, emu itself produces dead sound from the tomb among dead men. And p16v sounds better with alsa than emu + oss.

Why is OSS not developed since 2011?

That hw mixing has no benefits over cpu mixing. Same maths is used, math is the same ie operations of arithmetics. Software samplers are proven to be superior since cpu is more powerful and etc. You give ridiculous arguments without any technical substantiation. You do good work on supporting this forum but in other aspects may be it would be benefitical for you to talk with knowledgeable alsa developers.

Just to finish with hi-res, find the software to give sine waves and find your hearing range. Hearing range is what you may hear + remember about your speakers' reproductive range.
High quality + pleasance has nothing to do with a sampling rate over 41000. I may only agree that during the production it may be required. Fft resampling may be benfitial due to adding some non-linear harmonics making music more alive. Perhaps float point has something to do with those fft transformations which deal with endless digits. One interesting thing i noticed is that you don't want install alsa for tests and alsa devs don't want to install oss for the same purposes. But at least they do not claim that oss users are deaf... That's what makes me take the final decision to concentrate on other things than continue exploring of possibilities to replace alsa by oss. By the way you are welcomed to make your input for alsa. If you can develop a system-wide resampling layer of high-quality for linux (which may even work both with alsa or oss) (they call it a lib) , then you must advertise it and pursuade devs of sound applications to support it. It's what happened with libsamplerate, soxlib, jackd. So you are welcome. Alsa devs are busy with supporting current projects. So instead of criticizing other people you can try contributing. Instead of reanimating OSS you may develop|improve alsa. No one wants to support oss nowdays simply because it's quality can be the same.

[igorzwx]

Igor, what speakers are you using to listen to your hi-res audio i wonder? Because as far as i know large pro monitors are usually flat from 45 hz to 22000 hz and very large expensive ones from 30 to 25000-30000. So my question is how are you going to benefit from 96000\2 = 48000 and higher rates if your sound-producing equipment (speakers) simple do not reproduce that rate? You seem to be stuck in placebo belief of prevalance of the OSS driver.

Are you going to spam this forum with ALSA ideology, despite any warnings?

ALSA users do need to explain to themselves why they do not hear the difference.
The OSS4 users do not have such problems.