On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 04:54:15PM -0400, Keith Wright wrote: kwright> > From: "Michael Frysinger" <vapier@WPI.EDU> kwright> > kwright> > If you're alsa or something, g'luck, cause i'm not touching alsa ;) kwright> kwright> Why is this? Is it personal (e.g. you have no time for it), or kwright> is there something I should know before I start touching ALSA? As to the last question: It certainly is a bit trickier to set up, but that is mainly because it isn't integrated into most distributions or mainline stable kernels. However, now that Linus has accepted it in kernel 2.5, we will hopefully see more support built-in to the distributions. Once you set it up, however, it has more advanced features. Your applications would need to be coded to the native ALSA API to take advantage of most features, but there are some other neat things you can do without specific application support, like intercept the output stream for visual effects and/or recording. Major apps like XMMS (via external plugin), xine and mplayer have ALSA support. My main impetus for using it is that the i810 AC'97 codec support in OSS/Free sucks. Both the Dell machines I've used come with this braindead sound hardware. The older Dell wouldn't do bitrates other than 44kHz/16-bit under OSS (or it tried to do them, with abyssmal results). ALSA fixed these issues for me. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886