On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 08:29:00 -0500, John Bleichert wrote: > In ths spirit of this thread, is it really even possible that any sound > server could be used across window managers? Are people suggesting that > jackd be used as the lower-level sound daemon all the window managers > could talk to? I assume ALSA in 2.6 is going to look (from above) just > like the OSS sound layer. Doesn't this solve the problem? Or do > artsd/esd/whatever get "in the way"? Will a window manager have to be > re-coded if it assumes there's a lower-level daemon that emulates > full-duplex on cheap hardware? artds has saved my bacon on 2 workstations > at work with cheap-arse onboard sound. Would something like KDE require > significant re-coding to use jackd? To use jackd nativly? Yes, it would require some pretty major changes, but thats one benefit of arts, it only has to be changed there. - Steve
