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On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: |
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> > Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume |
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> > aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this |
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> > out at the moment) |
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> It comes from alsa-oss. This package gets compiled automatically, as a |
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> dependency, if you enable +oss use flag with alsa-driver |
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> > On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on |
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> > linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound |
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> > server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What purpose do sound |
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> > servers serve? |
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> If you check out mailing list archives of sometime back, you'll find me asking |
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> exactly the same question. At that time I was using aRts with KDE, and was |
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> experiencing nothing but problems. I did not get any concrete replies to this |
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> particular question i.e. "Why use a sound server anyways?". Just to see how |
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> things turn out, I disabled aRts and don't face any problems till now. I am |
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> using ALSA directly. |
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> You can also try disabling esd and see how things go for you. If you face any |
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> problems then you can enable it again, but I personally don't see any reason |
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> to use a sound server. |
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Thanks Abhay. I emerged alsa-driver and got more kernel modules than I |
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ever hope to see again. After some hacking I got rid of that and |
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emerged alsa-oss, started firefox with aoss and everything works like |
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a charm. |
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On the topic of sound servers I shutdown esd and started routing |
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everything straight to alsa and have no problems so I can cut that |
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overhead. I tend to agree with Richard, dmix obsoletes the sound |
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servers. |
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Thanks guys. |
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-Mike |
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Michael E. Crute |
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Software Developer |
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SoftGroup Development Corporation |
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Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. |
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Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. |
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