From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mf2.bredband.net (pop02.lab.bredband.com [195.54.122.120]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96605ABD7C for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:21:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from oggy.local ([213.112.41.119]) by mf2.bredband.net with ESMTP id <20020617192135.ZFPO12689.mf2@oggy.local> for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:21:35 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Per Wigren To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] alsa support removed from current KDE Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:20:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <200206161900.33979.jouzts@bigfoot.com> <200206170111.47964.verwilst@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200206170111.47964.verwilst@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206172120.27295.wigren@home.se> Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 3d80cfd7-f6de-4dea-8b73-9de0b50ce87f X-Archives-Hash: ceee142c99d2fe47fea8f8d892849ad8 Maybe because ALSA has a superior API, support for more soundcards, uses less resources, is going to be the default soundsystem in Linux 2.6? ALSA itself is not buggy, it's some of the apps' ALSA-"support" that is buggy... Try to access the emu10k1 sequencer with the standard OSS-modules.. Total kernel freeze! :P At least with the lowlatency and preemptive patches installed.. (I haven't tested without them) // Wigren Monday 17 June 2002 01.11 skrev Bart Verwilst: > On Monday 17 June 2002 01:00, John A. Ouzts wrote: > || I believe there will be some pent up demand for a HOWTO on getting sound > || to work using KDE 3.0.1. and alsa 0.9, when a fix comes and alsa support > || goes back into KDE. I suspect virtually all KDE users will be in need of > || specific instructions for getting sound back. > > For getting sound back?? > I never used alsa in my life, and still i've always enjoyed sound on my KDE > systems, without any hassle whatsoever... I can't understand why anybody > would want to use something as (apparently) bugridden and hard to setup as > alsa, when he can just compile his sounddrivers in the kernel, and let arts > do all the work... > > just my 2 cents