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