[wplug] SOUND!

[Darius Cardren]

I've never had sound issues w/ sound w/ either mandrake or red hat
veriosns i;ve used, I've used onboard audio and an old sb16  and some
cards i've even had issues w/ in windows.... so i can't say i've had
sound problems before


Ben


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:12:52 -0400 (EDT), Bryon Gill <bgtrio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ALSA on 2.6 has 'just worked' on every sound card I've tried to use in the last
> year or so, using Fedora Core 1 and 2.  I even have a professional M-Audio card
> hooked into one of my PC's and it runs beautifully.
> 
> The ESD thing is tricky- ESD is a broker for your /dev/dsp and tries to
> intercept stuff, but some times latency is really bad or programs think the
> device is occupied.  For games you sometimes have to turn it off- otherwise it
> should be transparent to most of your sound applications; ditto for artsd in KDE
> apps.
> 
> I have only one real gripe, and it's not Linux's fault- mp3 can't work out of
> the box for a truly free distribution because of patent concerns with
> Fraunhofer.
> 
> Bryon
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> 
> > A recurring theme at the installfest today was that NOBODY COULD GET THEIR
> > SOUND TO WORK!  In fact, 75% of those surveyed had sound problems.  Mine
> > are intolerable (for those of you helping me at the installfest -- no, the
> > DVD player still does not work) and I would like to fix them.
> >
> > The problem is, the documentation on TLDP is out of date -- it emphasizes
> > configuring ISA devices -- and other documentation is at best "limited in
> > scope."  In particular, the application I'm curious about - the
> > "enlightened sound daemon" - seems to have scarcely any docs at all!
> > e.g.:
> > http://www.fifi.org/doc/esound-common/html/introduction.html
> > My impression is that this program is supposed to sit on /dev/dsp and
> > accept connections from programs that want to play sound.  The problem,
> > there's no documentation telling how to get EsounD and these various
> > 'client' programs to hook up, and when i try to, for example, play a DVD,
> > it says that the device is in use and can't play sound.  Everything is
> > just a big broken-fest, undocumented and nonfunctional.  It's very
> > disillusioning and my dreams of someday replacing my windows machine with
> > some magical distribution that works are fading away.  Let's face it --
> > playing sound is a pretty fundamental feature of modern PCs.
> >
> > Barring any further information from the local list, can anyone suggest
> > who I should email next?  ESounD doesn't seem to have a support list, alsa
> > is just the 'driver' portion, and debian or gnome just seem too distant
> > from my project.  But I must admit, I'm going to probably have to take
> > this to the Debian list because I am out of steam.
> >
> > -Brandon
> >
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Ben Beige
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