You asked me about support for a driver that is free and *working* I told you that you should remove the alsa driver before you try loading the rme96xx driver, and the next thing I hear from you is that you are lamenting on a public list about my driver not working.
Well, I did get it to do stereo well, but multichannel stuff did not work (all other channel pairs except for the first stereo pair outputted garbage -- possibly due to fact I am using internal RME's A/D D/A brackets, rather than a dedicated external A/D D/A converter). At that point I had no errors that the driver reported, yet the thing did not work right, and that left me with no options to pursue... So, I did not give up on it that easily :-).
Maybe this made me overreact a bit. Sorry, and thank you for pointing out the problems you see with OSS, be assured that personally I think that ALSA is much superiour to OSS, but at the same time you might accept that I had very good
reasons
for writing the OSS driver. (which was actually not much more than changing Winfrieds driver to include interleaved mode for standard OSS apps).
Guenter
I hope that you understand that I am not trying to put down your contribution to the Linux community (that would have been extremely rude on my part). I know that you have contributed A LOT to the community already. I was simply trying to explain myself as to why I am using Alsa, and thus am inquiring about its compatibility with the current version of PD.
Well, at least I am glad we understand each other now better :-).
Ico