Re: sound problems

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>>>>Bruce and I have both chucked the "improved" OSS support and gone to ALSA,...
>>>>Heck, THIS machine (look at the header) is still on 2.0.30, like RH FOUR 
>>>>POINT TWO (not for long!).
>>>If you don't need full-duplex, then OSS is fine.  (and a lot easier! :)
>>>For normal sound, I can't tell any difference in quality between ALSA & OSS.
>>
>>I don't think ALSA is "harder"; it was simply harder to understand some
>>of the things the developers were suggesting, mostly because English is hardly
>>their native language. I'm doing something about that now by writing better
>>documentation for ALSA, at on the install/configure side.
>Alsa is "harder" because Redhat 5.2 comes with an improved version of
>the program "sndconfig" that does all the setup work for you ....
ALSA was no harder at the time. The above being true, sndconfig got easier.

>There is nothing like that for ALSA (AFAIK), so you must configure
>the modules & parameters manually.  That's definitely harder.
At ther moment, yes. I do note that they've cleaned up their documentation
a bit, included more examples, clarified the install.  Probably not as easy
and sndconfig, but easier than it was, and it get some people the added 
functionality required, which IS indeed important...

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