Re: alsalib

[Matej Cepl <ceplm@seznam.cz>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> This should works for any program using OSS (this covers most unfriendly
> ones, like Mozilla plugin, OpenOffice or vmware, ...), or ALSA in
> emulation mode (for native mode, alsalib is our friend :-).

Meaning that solution provided by native ALSA is better than the one
provided when ALSA is emulating OSS (i.e., application accesses /dev/dsp
device, which is OSS port for sound). ALSA is rather complex beast
consisting of kernel modules (default sound in 2.6.* kernels) and number of
user-space packages; to get their list run:

dpkg -l \*alsa\* | grep -v player

What I understand from the message (and I have no idea, about the context)
is that you should forget about OSS and ALSA-emulating-OSS, but rather use
ALSA natively (which is what I would suggest anyway).

Best,

Matěj

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