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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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Regards, |
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Abhay |
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