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. Igor, I am successfully using b12 here, no problems. To answer the other point, from a personal point of view, I changed because if I played sound and used Speakup with my external synth at the same time, I got audio break-up, don't know why, maybe it was a kernel scheduling issue, I don't know, but ALSA has solved it and all seems fine. I guess this could change later today however when I try to compile Speakfreely 7.5. Cheers, and sorry if this has already been covered, I'm catching up after a week offline due to isp problems. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
