On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 01:21:15PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:47:55AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > What will be the alternatives? ALSA never worked for me to a usefull > > state. It has partly translated config files but not in the parser, has > > always cracking sound and kernel panics. It lags the ability to play > > multiple streams and more. > > > > On the other hand, OSS (OSS4) did always work and is the easier to > > implement solution. It supports natively sound multiplexing and several > > channels. > > > > Unfortunately some applications does refuse to work with oss, even > > applications that was long OSS only (Teamspeak, commercial product) > > > > Pulsaudio was /one/ solution to mitigate that but no good solution as it > > adds many problems with sound. > > > > So I am interested in the strategy, devuan will go here. > > I personally can't stand pulse, and I'm not the only one: > <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/2013-June/058100.html> > <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/2013-June/058102.html> > <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/2013-June/058200.html> > > There is more where that came from. The only reason I tolerate it is > because removing pulseaudio also removes gnome-core among others. I'm > all for choice, and believe that those who want pulse in devuan should > be able to install it. I would also however love to go back to the > good old days of squeeze where some many things didn't depend on > pulse, and I could get speech from orca with only alsa, or even just > oss installed. Just my $0.01 worth.
Back in squeeze, a lot of the audio stuff depended on libpulse. It just didn't require the pulseaudio daemon. As an OSS4 user at the time*, to remove libpulse I found it necessary to rebuild any audio software I used. Fortunately for me, that was a *very* small list (mpg123, vlc | mplayer2). *I used OSS4 because ALSA would require building newer alsa libraries, and I didn't want to deal with an audio library from outside the repos. Then I found that OSS4 Just Worked, and *also* had virtual mixing. Thanks, Isaac _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
