Venting about alsa

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:22:01 -0400
Steven W. Orr wrote:

> This hass been going on for so damned long and I just want it to stop. Is it
> alsa, is it pulsaudio?

As I understand it (probably not at all :-) it is sorta both.

ALSA is being asked to do things no one ever asked
before pulseaudio came along (legal things, but new nevertheless),
and it ain't working right.