I apoligize if my blunt remarks have caused anyone offense. This was not my intention.
I would like to correct one misunderstanding regarding my frustration however. I am not a win32 user dipping my toe in the waters on linux. I am a system administrator accustomed to running apache, qmail, courier, bind, postgres, mysql etc. Mostly I work with BSD variants. Compared to mature products like those with which I ordinarily work, alsa is an impenetrable thicket of trouble with few guideposts. It simply would not do to say that linux is currently overhauling its web services so at this point in time it is nearly impossible to get a web server running with any certaintly unless you're willing to invests weeks of effort. Same for mail or X. Or anything really. I use BSD ( or in a pinch Linux ) for the above mentioned tasks because these platforms offer the most powerful combination of features performance and stability available. With sound, this simply isn't the case. At this stage in the game, if I were to recommend to a client that they use Linux as a platform for serious audio work, I would be giving poor advice. I was reluctant to mix music with computers because music is how I relax whereas computers are what stresses me out. I chose to dabble in Linux ( as compared to BSD ) simply because most of the open source audio apps seem to assume Linux rather than BSD, and many fail to readily compile on BSD. (For instance, the FreeBSD ports tree still uses Rosegarden 2 of which the program's own authors give a rather dismal review at this time. Rosegarden 4 would not willingly compile on my FreeBSD-4.6 setup for want of certain libraries. I am about to upgrade this to 5.2 as soon as the download finishes. ) After having a go at alsa I can see that my initial misgivings were not without reason. btw, I would not be at all averse to helping out with the reprehensible state of documentation for alsa. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
