Re: FC3 wishlist - sound server

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:02 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
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> > What about including a good sound server and use it by default? I don't
> > know what's best, but Jack seems ok.
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> I still don't see the point of using a sound server when ALSA allows for
> software/hardware sound mixing from different sources.
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Doesn't ALSA only allow one opener for the sound device file, and expect 
the sound to be mixed in software?

It was OSS that did sound mixing within the kernel drivers, but it was 
problematic.

Do I have that right?