the reason people like alsa is because alsa is userspace and handles only sound. the kernel drivers have to fight fortiming and as a result sometimes place unecissary load on the system. hth -- Shaun If little else, the brain is an educational toy. -- Tom Robbins EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. I am having pretty bad luck getting beta11 of the alsa package to > work. Beta9 work well with some quirks. I wonder what has so drastically > changed in beta11 that makes it so much harder to get working? Anyway, my > question is why does everyone like the alsa drivers better than the oss > modules? One thing that I've heard is that the oss modules don't use full > duplex. Is this correct? The only reason why I ask is because I am > considering switching from alsa to the 2.4.18 sound modules to hopefully > fix my problem with not being able to play wavs with trplayer. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >