[wplug] SOUND!

[Bryon Gill]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Brandon Kuczenski 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.
>>
>
> Okay, so by 'just worked,' you mean you removed the OSS drivers, installed
> Alsa, and configured it to load the alsa drivers, and then pointed all
> your programs at alsa?  Pretty much it's just the first step that I don't
> think I understand there, though I have (seemed to) run into problems on
> my system.  Perhaps I will try again.

No, on FC1 I installed the 2.6 kernel that has ALSA built in, on FC2 it comes 
that way.  There's still an emulated OSS interface through ALSA so your OSS apps 
will still work normally.



>
>> 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.
>
> So, in your 'just working' systems, do you have a facility for that
> behavior?

I haven't had to think about it for a while- if i get a "device busy" error I do 
a

ps ax | grep esd

and if esd is running I kill it

killall esd

then try my application again.

Good luck,
Bryon


>
> And, of course, there is the perennial "flash player in mozilla won't play
> sound" problem, for which I still haven't found a solution that works for
> me (web has suggested a few that are either non-applicable, insufficiently
> detailed, or unsuccessful)
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Agreed.  And I suppose I need to look at Fedora for my desktop
> 'windows-replacer.'
>
> -Brandon
>
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