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From: Igor Gueths <igueths@attbi.com>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: kernel vs. alsa?
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:13:41 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204210912570.232-100000@igueths> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204212138250.4039-100000@borg.goanna.net.au>

Hi Shaun. But won't the timing issue come into play once it is integrated
in the next kernel tree? Unless you compile it as a module, I might be
able to see the above problem happening.

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Shaun Oliver wrote:

> the reason people like alsa is because alsa is userspace and handles only
> sound.
> the kernel drivers have to fight fortiming and as a result sometimes place
> unecissary load on the system.
> hth
>
>
> --
> Shaun
>
> If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
>                 -- Tom Robbins
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>
>
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
>
> > Hi all. I am having pretty bad luck getting beta11 of the alsa package to
> > work. Beta9 work well with some quirks. I wonder what has so drastically
> > changed in beta11 that makes it so much harder to get working? Anyway, my
> > question is why does everyone like the alsa drivers better than the oss
> > modules? One thing that I've heard is that the oss modules don't use full
> > duplex. Is this correct? The only reason why I ask is because I am
> > considering switching from alsa to the 2.4.18 sound modules to hopefully
> > fix my problem with not being able to play wavs with trplayer.
> >
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Igor Gueths
 ` Cheryl Homiak
   ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Shaun Oliver
   ` Igor Gueths [this message]
     ` Shaun Oliver
     ` Cheryl Homiak
   ` Cheryl Homiak
     ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Toby Fisher

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