Re: [linux-audio-user] Common linux audio layer

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Fri Jan 07 2005 - 18:01:35 EET

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:59 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > the problem is: i install one app, install another app,
> > both are outputting sound, and it won't work.
>
> You mean: in the best case, only one of them is putting out
> sound :) .
>

dmix

> > you can port open source apps to audio, and blame
> > commercial companies to write apps for alsa
> > (Id did, the new doom III release has alsa support)
>
> To be honest, they shouldn't support ALSA, they should better
> support the non existing common unix audio layer.
>

Why can't ALSA be the common layer?

> > but u still need to struggle around with alsa
> > config, etc.
>
> Yep. And normal users are not able to do so.

They should not have to. If you have to hack .asoundrc and google for
hours to get sound working then IT'S A BUG IN YOUR DISTRO. Please file
a bug report.

Lee
Received on Fri Jan 7 20:15:12 2005

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