Re: ALSA

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> > Someone should package ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
> > http://alsa.jcu.cz/
> 
> Okay, I'm working on it. I'll do some extra work to make a nice
> configuration script for it and hope to have a working package
> in the next couple of days.

I noticed that the utils/ dir of  one of the packages had RPM stuff in
it..


> > Given the number of 'why is my sound not working?' questions we see on the
> > irc channel this is problably a very good idea. 
> 
> ALSA is not fully OSS/Lite compatible, so some things (like Quake on SB16
> cards) don't work yet. But it's looking good so far and development is still
> going strong (from what I gather from their webpage).

Well, Quake works fine on my gusmax, I didn't try it on the sb16.
RealAudio and Muse both worked on the gusmax and the sb16 without any
troubles, and both were significantly more stable than the .34 oss driver.

Jason


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