On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 03:22 +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Can't these darn desktops just play through ALSA without using > a sound server, like all normal applications do? > And what is ALSA isn't available on the system? This means that every gnome application must have it's own sound code to use either OSS or Alsa, and must have a configuration item for this and so on and so forth. By using a sound server, all the gnome apps automatically know where to send sound. The sound server then takes these inputs and on one place has configs for alsa or oss and does what it needs to do. In reality this means that some users that have cards that can't handle multiple sources at once (an audio player may lock the sound device so no other app can make sound) can now get threaded sounds from applications. There are other uses, this is just a couple of them. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
