Eric Gaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Portability and network transparency are two strong advantages that come
to mind. You are looking at it from a users perspective. Consider it
from a programmers point of view and it will be clear that even with
Alsa, a good sound daemon is important.
Eric Gaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you are confusing the two. Alsa is a sound architecture but
esound is a sound daemon. Alsa makes sounds where as esound plays more
of a traffic cop role. Bottom line is that they serve two different
purposes when dealing with sound. Alsa plays the
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:10 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote:
Eric Gaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you are confusing the two. Alsa is a sound architecture but
esound is a sound daemon. Alsa makes sounds where as esound plays more
of a traffic cop role. Bottom line is that they serve
Eric Gaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alsa cannot play multiple audio streams simultaneously. From what I
understand, this is more of a hardware limitation than an alsa
limitation. They claim that some sound cards can do automatic hardware
mixing. If your card can't do this then there is a
Eric Gaumer wrote:
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:10 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote:
Eric Gaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you are confusing the two. Alsa is a sound architecture but
esound is a sound daemon. Alsa makes sounds where as esound plays more
of a traffic cop role. Bottom line is that
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:54 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote:
Eric Gaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alsa cannot play multiple audio streams simultaneously. From what I
understand, this is more of a hardware limitation than an alsa
limitation. They claim that some sound cards can do
I had ALSA built as module in the kernel without OSS support. Alsa was
working fine (xmms, xine, etc.) but was giving no system sounds at all.
So I installed esound last night (Gnome in Unstable, kernel 2.6.7).
Since then, after reboot, whichever user logs in kind of own esd because
if then
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 14:53 -0400, H. S. wrote:
I had ALSA built as module in the kernel without OSS support. Alsa was
working fine (xmms, xine, etc.) but was giving no system sounds at all.
So I installed esound last night (Gnome in Unstable, kernel 2.6.7).
Since then, after reboot,
Apparently, _Eric Gaumer_, on 24/10/04 15:14,typed:
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 14:53 -0400, H. S. wrote:
I had ALSA built as module in the kernel without OSS support. Alsa was
working fine (xmms, xine, etc.) but was giving no system sounds at all.
So I installed esound last night (Gnome in Unstable,
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 15:31 -0400, H. S. wrote:
Apparently, _Eric Gaumer_, on 24/10/04 15:14,typed:
When is do 'ps uax | grep esd' i see an esd session from the last user
that had first logged in. Also, xmms does not work anymore. Killing esd
solves the xmms problem but Gnome system sounds
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:20:07 +0200, H. S. wrote:
So I installed esound last night (Gnome in Unstable, kernel 2.6.7).
Since then, after reboot, whichever user logs in kind of own esd because
if then that user logs out and another logs in, s/he get in
.xsession-errors:
Please submit this
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:50:07 +0200, H. S. wrote:
I could do that. But how does that relate to Alsa? If I install esound,
can I just uninstall Alsa altogether?
If you use ALSA and esound then you should install libesd-alsa0 instead
of libesd0.
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Apparently, _Eric Gaumer_, on 24/10/04 16:08,typed:
I think you are confusing the two. Alsa is a sound architecture but
esound is a sound daemon. Alsa makes sounds where as esound plays more
of a traffic cop role. Bottom line is that they serve two different
purposes when dealing with sound. Alsa
Apparently, _Thomas Hood_, on 24/10/04 15:56,typed:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:50:07 +0200, H. S. wrote:
I could do that. But how does that relate to Alsa? If I install esound,
can I just uninstall Alsa altogether?
If you use ALSA and esound then you should install libesd-alsa0 instead
of libesd0.
I
Apparently, _H. S._, on 24/10/04 20:03,typed:
If you use ALSA and esound then you should install libesd-alsa0 instead
of libesd0.
I already have libesd-alsa0 installed and removed libesd0 (which was
'rc' and not 'ii' in dpkg info):
~$ dpkg -l libesd*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
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