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(and much belated, at that! -- catching up.)
From: Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:51:10 +0200
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
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Don't hesitate to ask me .
Christoph,
A small request, if you would be so kind.
(Or anyone else who feels
OSS seems to be dead,
Yes.
ALSA is said by some to be dying,
Certainly not :) .
ARTS looks like a do-(almost)-everything, but a few lacks,
Arts is dying. Forget about it.
DMIX looks like 'almost there, with limits',
This is softwaremixing for ALSA, but if you do want pro audio
work,
Christoph Eckert schreef:
Even if you're not running KDE you can install arts standalone
and start it via any login script. Dunno where esound can get
started.
rc-update in other words, rc-update add esound default .
Holly
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Christoph Eckert wrote:
There is an alsa plugin to allow any native alsa
application to connect through the jack server.
Unfortunately I've never been able to get acceptable sound
quality using it this way
I guess you mean bio2jack.sf.net?
No, I mean 'media-plugins/alsa-jack'.
hi,
I have 2 box with gentoo, one at my home and other at work.
well, the one of home have alsa drivers for sound and I used gnome as
desktop for a while.
I always was able to listen sound from a lot of softwares at same time
and didn't needed to do any manual configuration to this.
At my work
Coming to my job I did get a try to use start esd at shell
prompt and suddenly I could run a lot of xmms instances and
listen to all they at the same time.
PLease note that xmms (unlike many others) has various output
plugins for several sound systems.
The advantage of audio servers are
Christoph Eckert wrote:
The currently best solution is to configure the DMIX plugin
for ALSA (search alsa.opensrc.org for sharing) and run both
arts and esound on top of it. This way, arts and esound aware
applications can play sound *as well as* applications which
can output sound directly
Hi,
This is all correct, but it should be noted that dmix does
NOT provide full-duplex capabilities:
If your card is able to work in full duplex or not does not
depend on ALSA but the hardware. Cheap AC '97 chips are able
to work in full duplex mode.
this means that you
will probably be
On 6/7/05, Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
This is all correct, but it should be noted that dmix does
NOT provide full-duplex capabilities:
If your card is able to work in full duplex or not does not
depend on ALSA but the hardware. Cheap AC '97 chips are able
to work
Christoph Eckert wrote:
Hi,
Afaik jack
should enable this, but I have never tried it
JACK is a specialised soundserver for realtime audio stuff
used by musicians (that's why I'm running JACK all the
time ;) .
I doubt that Skype will ever be able to talk to JACK. What you
plan
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