Re: Looking for Ryan Murray "rmurray"
Hi,
Sylvain de Crom wrote:
I made some adjustments to esound, so that bug #114003 would be closed.
I would like to give my fixed package to murray, but he doesn't respond
to my mail (neither to mails from jc@jcb.yi.org)
Has anybody heard something from him in the last 45 days?
Don't know about him. But I have dig some esound related problem
recently and I noticed that esound-0.2.23 is out for a 'long' time now
and still not in the unstable...
By the way I would like to know about the futur of the Debian sound
system on Sid !
As far as I see, ALSA-0.9 (ALSA-1.0 in fact) will be part of the 2.5
linux kernel. And so, it will be the futur standard (replacing OSS).
The problem is that now everything is running for OSS or ALSA-0.5 and
not for ALSA-0.9.
There is several solution for the people who want to use ALSA-0.9.
* Use the ALSA-OSS interface
Compile the module from ALSA-website. Do:
modprobe snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
Problems:
o My SMP box freeze a lot when this is used (twice in 15min)
o Temporary hack (we will have to move softwares to ALSA-0.9)
Advantages:
o Easy to add
o We can make the upgrade the softwares one after one
o The sound is really better than OSS (I really enjoyed about it)
*Go straight to ALSA-0.9
First is esound. There is a patch to make it work with ALSA-0.9:
http://webpages.charter.net/tprado/esound/
I didn't test it for now.
Problems:
o That's a lot of work in a time which must be as short as possible
o We will have to switch completely to one sound system to another
(risky)
o A lot of untested patches have to be applied
o I don't know if aRts (KDE) has such a patch
Advantages:
o It will definitely switch to Alsa-0.9
Of course, I would propose to follow the first way. But, I would like to
know what is the feeling of the Debian people about this !
Regards
--
Emmanuel
Wormwood: Calvin, how about you?
Calvin : Hard to say ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused.
-- Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Waterson)
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