On Wednesday 22 March 2006 15:12, Frank Barknecht wrote: >Hallo, > >Gene Heskett hat gesagt: // Gene Heskett wrote: >> Lee, I'm not exactly sure how, but you'll recall when I first came >> to this list I was wanting help with isolating skype from the normal >> audio stuff, running skype with the nforce2 chipset, and the rest of >> the system audio thru an audigy 2. >> >> Its all working, and I have NO oss stuff even built in my custom >> kernel tree, currently 2.6.16. I haven't tried it without the aoss >> emulation though, so maybe thats whats picking up the reins. > >If you run Skype through the OSS emulation that is built into ALSA, >you should have no problems. However then you cannot use the more >advanced features of ALSA, especially you cannot use software mixing >through dmix. To use that with other OSS applications, they can be >fooled to think they would talk to a normal OSS device even when they >are in fact talking to a real ALSA device by using aoss and the >LD_PRELOAD hack. Skype however deliberatly is fighting such hacks >because the Skype developers don't want the user to be in control of >the user's machine. This again shows, how evil Skype is and what >arrogant thinking must drive its developers. I would recommend to >uninstall it immediatly. > Well, I'm not quite that paranoid, but I do object to its using half my dsl pipe even when not connected. So it only gets run maybe 20 minutes in the average week. But it messes with your mind anyway, clicking on the close X only puts it in the toolbar, you must use the file-->close option to stop it completely. Thats BS, fresh, warm and steaming.
I did have to jump through a few hoops to make it work too as I have to use the hijack launcher here. >Ciao -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
