Re: Sound card not working

Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by default,
> it all works *much* better. But its still confusing and is (to my mind
> at least) sucn an esoteric subject that its kind of all like
> blackmagic to make it work properly.

PulseAudio is the future:

http://www.pulseaudio.org/

There is a presentation linked to off of their site that lists the limitations of other solutions, such as ALSA dmix. I use it, it's quite nice--Zeroconf support for network-transparent sound. Which is nice when you want to play a video on your laptop and get sound output through a stereo hooked up to your desktop box. :)

Best yet it has support for emulating ESD, right down to it's API and wire protocol.

> A

-- 
Andrew J. Barr

Woke up in my clothes again this morning,
don't know exactly where I am...


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