On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 03:14, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du jeudi 01 janvier 2004, vers > 13:24, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > >> > ALSA has many problem, use the OSS emulation instead of native ALSA > >> > and all should work fine. I have switched back to OSS drivers recently > > > So did I in early 2.6.0-test, but it's improved a lot since then, > > and I've realised how much more powerful ALSA is. > > Sure, even with 1.0.0rc2, many apps still are unable to use properly > the native ALSA driver (mplayer for example)
Yes, mplayer seems to be broken (not only) in this regard. As usual, it works via SDL though. > Another drawback is that with ALSA everything becomes complex. With > OSS, you have /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. You can easily change the > default sound card with some symbolic link. With ALSA, you have so > many more devices, mixer settings can be very numerous (on my SB Live, > there are at least 20 of them !) and there is no simple way to > configure this. I guess complexity is the price for flexibility. :) I hope it's only a matter of time until someone writes an easy ALSA configuration tool though. > BTW, does there exist an ".asoundrc" which is system-wide ? Sure, /etc/asound.conf, as mentioned in my other post. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
