Re: Sound card not working

["Andrew J. Barr" <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com>]

Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by default,
> it all works *much* better. But its still confusing and is (to my mind
> at least) sucn an esoteric subject that its kind of all like
> blackmagic to make it work properly.

PulseAudio is the future:

http://www.pulseaudio.org/

There is a presentation linked to off of their site that lists the
limitations of other solutions, such as ALSA dmix. I use it, it's quite
nice--Zeroconf support for network-transparent sound. Which is nice
when you want to play a video on your laptop and get sound output
through a stereo hooked up to your desktop box. :)

Best yet it has support for emulating ESD, right down to it's API and
wire protocol.

> A


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