xmms & evolution
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Thu Dec 4 02:20:31 UTC 2003
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:42:24PM -0700, Rob Park wrote:
> Jack Bowling wrote:
> >A user of ALSA would never, ever denigrate it as "needless
> >complication".
>
> So then what does it DO? I mean, aside from duplicating hardware
> functionality (multiple-channel audio) in software?
>
> I've had problems with Alsa when I first started using linux, and it
> really put me off ALSA. I don't see any point to having it, except for
> complicating things for no reason.
This link says it better than I ever could:
http://www.eca.cx/lad/2002/Mar/0109.html
For myself, ALSA is the only framework that handles my Extigy USB
soundcard properly.
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Jack Bowling
mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca
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