On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:28 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:18 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> > now that's what i call a sick joke.
> >
> > if only i had more time, i'd be writing CoreAudio for linux right this
> > very second.
>
> Which would magically make 5 zillion different sound devices on the
> market that you don't have the specs to or even a hardware sample Just
> Work?
no, it would provide names like
MOTU 828 mkII channel 1+2
RME HDSP (#1)
Builtin Audio
to the user.
it would also fix a myriad of other problems in ALSA, such as its
reliance on interrupts that occur at regular sample-based intervals,
its presentation of a multiplicity of programming models, and its
lack of reasonable way to present itself to ordinary users.
--p
