OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du jeudi 01 janvier 2004, vers
13:24, Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> disait:
>> > ALSA has many problem, use the OSS emulation instead of native ALSA
>> > and all should work fine. I have switched back to OSS drivers recently
> So did I in early 2.6.0-test, but it's improved a lot since then,
> and I've realised how much more powerful ALSA is.
Sure, even with 1.0.0rc2, many apps still are unable to use properly
the native ALSA driver (mplayer for example) with snd-powermac and
some drivers do not work at all (snd-usb-audio for me). I am very
interested by dmix, but each application should deal with ALSA first
(and I am not a fan of using many wrappers). I'll see in one month. :)
Another drawback is that with ALSA everything becomes complex. With
OSS, you have /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. You can easily change the
default sound card with some symbolic link. With ALSA, you have so
many more devices, mixer settings can be very numerous (on my SB Live,
there are at least 20 of them !) and there is no simple way to
configure this. BTW, does there exist an ".asoundrc" which is
system-wide ?
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