> And you still need to solve the driver problem... Um. If we're talking about 2005, we're talking about Android. If we're talking about Android, we're talkin

> And you still need to solve the driver problem... Um. If we're talking about 2005, we're talking about Android. If we're talking about Android, we're talking about brand-spanking new hardware on a brand-spanking new phone. This means that the audio driver didn't exist, which means that it was being written from scratch. This makes the "driver problem" a non-issue. > Remember we're talking Linux in the 2005-era (~2.6.10-ish), not Linux today. ... ALSA was still mostly broken at the time. Most stuff still wanted OSS. I never tried to do any "pro audio", [0] but that's not how I remember it. ALSA worked just fine. Anything that wanted OSS worked well enough with ALSA's OSS-compat API. I can't remember if the software mixer was around or not at the time, but I remember that when it did arrive, it eliminated that problem with single-stream sound cards. [0] But -as I remember it- most folks doing pro audio used specialized, standalone hardware for it back then.