Transgaming have investigated Alsa 1 as a sound option to for WineX.
http://www.transgaming.com/showthread.php?news=98
Excerpt
" ALSA, of particular interest to TransGaming's Linux audience, does not provide
much of an added benefit over OSS. The primary speed advantage, hardware mixing,
a slower kludgy implementation use due to the fact that looping sound doesn't appear
to be supported; although full duplex support should be easier to provide than with OSS.
The major drawback of ALSA is that its mmap interface is not compatible with what is
required for DirectSound unless undocumented interfaces are used. All in all it appears
that using ALSA would provide some speed advantages for newer cards, but to be
done properly would require a rewrite of the winealsa driver. Thus we would suggest
that, for the time being, people continue to use the OSS emulation layer of
ALSA with "MMap" = "Y" enabled in their config file to get the best performance if it's supported on their sound card."
Apart from mmap which I guess is architectural and quite difficult to change, what about their
comments on looping sound - useful?
Cheers Richard
I don't think the winex people have much of a clue about how alsa works as I a pretty sure all the bad comments about alsa are untrue.
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