linux badly needs a standard sound daemon

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Fri Dec 12 17:53:08 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 16:40, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> ALSA is a set of low level drivers... it doesnt really know what the
> user wants to do with them. A sound daemon is equivalent to gpm.. it
> knows there is a mouse and inteprets the data to do various things. 

Yes, but IIRC ALSA mixes the sound inputs automatically thus software
like ESD and ARTS become unneeded.

Hugs, Rui

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