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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> You *might* want to look into OSS4 if your card is supported by it :P |
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> It will require a rebuild of many packages though ("oss -alsa" in |
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> make.conf) and it requires using non-portage packages from an overlay |
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> and rebuilding your kernel with sound support completely disabled. |
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> For what it's worth, that's what I use for a quite some time now. |
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Do you see any advantage(s) to using OSS4 over alsa? |
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e.g. |
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1. less distortion and/or better quality? |
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2. more control over the sound (e.g. equalizers)? |
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3. others? |
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What about downsides? |
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(I am presently using alsa, and intermittently have blocked sounds - |
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guess it is due to how the app was written.) |
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TIA |
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