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On 05/20/2010 09:44 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> On 05/20/2010 08:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>>> Don't |
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>>> even mention OSS4; the sound architecture goes in user space, not the |
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>>> kernel. |
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>> I don't care where they go (why the hell should I?), for as long as they |
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>> work. |
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> You should care, because if it breaks inside the kernel, it probably |
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> takes away the whole operating system. And then you lose work and |
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> you're sad. |
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Well, it doesn't break here. It's been rock-solid through the years. |
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It's too bad it's going to die though; it was the only way to get solid |
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sound for me. ALSA with its out-of-kernel dmix sucked, like, forever. |
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What doesn't work is PulseAudio, actually. Too many problems with it. |
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Pulse is simply broken by design; it's too far from the kernel to be any |
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good. |
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> But don't take my word for it; Intel+Nokia are using PulseAudio in |
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> MeeGo, and Google it's doing the same with Android. They are making an |
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> opinion with their wallets. |
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> (And doesn't really matters, but I haven't heard that it's possible to |
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> switch audio from internal speakers to bluetooth headset with OSS4, so |
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> as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't work.) |
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ALSA can't switch to Bluetooth either. You could use PulseAudio with |
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OSS4 instead of with ALSA though, but this is not officially supported. |
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