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 ? -- Don't patch bad code - rewrite it. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)
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