On Tuesday 20 January 2004 00:44, Mark Knecht wrote: >Matt, > My 2 cents...I don't think it's quite that simple, or at least it >doesn't seem that simple to me. This whole thread has been about >comparing apples and oranges. In my opinion Alsa as a project has > both made huge advances, and has a huge structural problem that may > never be fixed. > >1) Alsa really does work, or does work for some. It has small > problems, but with the right sound card it probably works really > well. (Right being defined as the same sound card one of the > primary developers has) > >2) For an apparently large and vocal group Alsa doesn't work very > well at all. In many cases I think this comes down to the Alsa > developers letting sound card drivers join the supported cards > group even though the drivers are not well tested and in many cases > don't work at all. Worse, there is no continuing support for > specific cards. Driver developers move off to do new things and > drivers fall into a state of disrepair. Reported bugs never get > talked about, much less fixed. For this group of people Alsa is > really a big mess.
Agreed, that which works, does so almost by accident. Mine sorta works, I can play music, listen to tv, (but at a very low volume level) and once in a blue moon timidity will work. > It's really hard reading these lists to know what the relative > size of the two groups are. I'm sure there are lots of happy people > out there that don't report that everything is working great. Happy > people seldom squeak. On the other hand, the unhappy often squeak, > but it's hard to know the size of that group also. Consider me a squeaker. > So, just because Alsa is in the newest kernels doesn't mean it's >really a solution ready for the masses. More, I think, that it's the >best thing going in Linux audio. It may be, but the rest of the system has got to get out of the oss mentality, almosy nothing works if I turn off the oss emulation. >Cheers, >Mark -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
