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Re: Mandrake 7.2 Sound Scheduling (cont.)



On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Hetz Ben Hemo wrote:

> ALSA provides a full compatible OSS layer - which means you can use ALSA with 
> OSS sounds. Also - you can find ALSA drivers for XMMS in xmms web site (if 
> I'm not mistaken)...
>

I know. I think that's why EsounD worked with it in the first place.
However, I do not want to run xmms directly above ALSA, because that means
nothing else would be able to play a sound at that time.
 
> As for Esound.. Don't hold your breath with it. It's practically dead. KDE 
> uses arts and GNOME are moving to GStreamer - and for a good reason - Esounds 
> take HUGE amounts of resources (specially when you play 2 sounds together)..
> 

Well, for the while xmms works with EsounD and MikMod works with EsounD,
and I think GNOME also works with EsounD. So, I'll stick to it until all
of my favourite applications are ported to something else.

It's a pity that the two desktops cannot decide on one unified sound
layer. I'd hate to be able not to hear sounds from both desktops
simultaenously.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> 
> -- 
> Hetz Ben Hamo
> Hardware Research
> Aduva Inc. 
> 
> * The opinions expressed here are my own and does not reflect my employee's 
> opinions.
> 
> On Monday 19 March 2001 10:45, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Well, I finally realized that the problem with the xmms scheduling was
> > that it was using ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) as its
> > soundcard backend. When I switched it to OSS (Open Sound System), I
> > managed to run it with much less problems.
> >
> > Since I have little motivation to prefer ALSA over OSS (I use EsounD for
> > my sound needs, which works equally well on either architecture), I
> > decided to stick to OSS for the while.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > 	Shlomi Fish
> >
> >
> 
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