Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] CD audio
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 21:08:31 EEST
Joseph Zitt wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:33:52 +0900
> Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>Various experts on Linux audio lead an intelligent newbie around in
>>>circles by making wrong assumptions about where he is starting from
>>>(in terms of system configuration, familiarity with Unix conventions
>>>for command lines, etc.). I must admit, it is a lot easier to make
>>>assumptions than to find out what is really going on.
>>>
>>
>>Perhaps not everyone has the interest to perefectly explain something
>>that has been said a million times over.
>
>
> Well, while it may have been said a million times, it still seems not to
> have been communicated. FWIW, I've been using UNIX and UNIX-like tools
> practically since their inception (a coworker coded up some tools in the
> early eighties working from the original blue technical publication) and
> have been a technical writer and editor for most of the past couple of
> decades, and, as has been demonstrated, I still don't know what the heck
> is going on with the Linux tools much of the time.
>
So this should be easy for you. Hence the reason that most people have
given you less info in their advice. Competence is assumed.
>
>>>On the other hand, if the audio driver that is already installed
>>>works, installing the ALSA driver is a waste of time unless you
>>>actually want to use some features that are unique to ALSA.
>>>
>>
>>Good point but Joseph obviously does becasue oss does not support usb
>>audio.
>
>
> OK, confused again: do I understand correctly that I'm currently using
> OSS with USB audio (in listening to MP3s, etc, though the USB audio
> interface)? If so, doesn't that show that OSS *does* support usb audio,
> but not the cd-playing interface on my machine?
>
To verify this you need to check which module is being used. You should
know how to do this by now. Can you also let us know what the name of
your usb card is again for reference on google?
-- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. For the discerning hardware connoisseur http://www.boosthardware.com http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/guide/ ========================================
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