I had shot some emails around with the esound maintainers regarding using plughw:# instead of hw:# as the default device and it was decided to leave it at hw:#. I'd prefer it to be plughw as well.
In the meantime, if you need plughw:# to make you card work, just put it in the spawn options in /etc/esd.conf (or /etc/esd/esd.conf depending on dist) Tom Prado On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Albert Jongkit Wong wrote: > Hello, > > > ah, perhaps xmms alsa plugin doesn't care the endianess. > > if so, it's a bug of alsa output plugin. > > I started hacking at the code. It looks like the xmms alsa plugin is fine > (if a bit messy). However, it looks like their mpg123 input plugin is > always output big-endian data even when it says it is outputing the native > format data...hrm... I'm not sure if that was intentional or not. In > either case, it's their bug so I'm bugging them about it now. > > > hmm, most likely the same reason. > > esd requests big-endian formats (as native machine format), which are > > not supported on usb devices. > > try to use the pcm 'plughw:0,0' instead of 'hw:0,0'. > > (well, iirc, there is a bug in esound alsa output. the command-line > > option is never passed as the device...) > > I tried esd -d plughw:0,0 and it worked over here. Is it more proper to > communicate to alsa through plughw rather than hw? It sounds like this > interface is the smarter way to go... I'm hesitating before suggesting > this to esound or mplayer since I'd rather not suggest something wrong. > > Thanks for helping me with this problem. My system's working great now. > :) > > -Albert > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
