Peter Nelson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 21:53 -1000, david wrote: >> 64-bit could be the problem. Particularly the shortage of 64-bit device >> drivers? I have nothing here running 64-bit, although the desktop >> machine's Sempron could run 64-bit. > > Why do you think there is a shortage of 64-bit drivers? Linux is not > Windows XP. Because that's what I've been told by people who presumably know better than I do. I don't run 64-bit OS of any sort, so don't know. > The problem is generally with older software or closed source software > that still uses OSS (sadly some brand new closed source software still > does this) or tries to use 'hw:0' instead of 'default'. That kind of > thing. 32- or 64-bit is not a problem at all. Or even modern stuff like JACK where if I specify "default" it comes up trying to use my laptop's built Intel modem as an audio output device. Sure, there are ways around it, but specifying something like hw:2 works easily. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
