I checked the archives and noticed the thread on Alsa 1.0. What was the resolution on that? I guess my concern is that for those of us that have 1.0 what happens if it's left for 0.9. I know with Winex it broke and I had to patch the winex alsa files. I used the quick and dirty method of modifying the header file but that is really a kluge and not long term. I have Alsa 1.0 installed so it works but it's not transportable to a system with 0.9. The better method is the patch that supports both interfaces so it doesn't matter what we have.
I know I made the move to Alsa 1.0 because it does fix the oss emulation problem which has been bothering a lot of people.
Thanks.