[Semi-OT] OSS audio vs ALSA

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 14:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:42:20 +0100
> Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Anyway if you have a volume/quality difference its either in the megaton
> > of desktop plumbing or a funny in one of the AC97 or HDMI codec drivers
> > and in each case simply means you have some specific local configuration
> > thats either broken somewhere or an obscure system config specific kernel
> > bug.
> 
> I don't know about that, I think there is something subtle going on with
> fedora's configuration or build or something. I personally don't care
> that much about sound quality, but when I have installed other distros
> on the same hardware (other distros that also use alsa like ubuntu
> and suse), I've noticed that the sound was better on them. Playing
> a silly game like neverputt, the sound will almost always have a bit
> of crackling on fedora that does not show up in the others.
> 

Must likely a pulseaudio issue.

- Gilboa