Re: esound and alsa not compatible?

[John L Fjellstad <john-debian@fjellstad.org>]

Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu> writes:

> I think you are confusing the two. Alsa is a sound architecture but
> esound is a sound daemon. Alsa makes sounds where as esound plays more
> of a traffic cop role. Bottom line is that they serve two different
> purposes when dealing with sound. Alsa plays the driver or module role.
> Someday it might be able to do the job of a sound daemon as well but I
> don't think this is the intent of the project.

I thought the never ALSA could play the role of 'traffic cop'?  As in,
it can get input from different streams and then merge them before
sending it to the soundcard.

Or does sound daemons do more?  

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