On 4/26/11 11:15 AM, jordan wrote:
hi,
The fact is Ubuntu switched to PulseAudio starting with 8.04 and is
providing Alsa/OSS compatibility ever since.
So Alsa is probably not Canonical's main center of interest.
erm.... Alsa is always going to be of main concern of ANY distribution
of Linux. PA doesn't replace ALSA, it just runs on top of it.
ALSA talks directly to hardware(@ thekernel level)... Applications
talk to PA(if using pulseaudio), then PA talks to ALSA. PA is just a
sound server, and resides in user-space. PA, Jack, etc aren't
replacements for ALSA - they work with ALSA.
Wine does not directly support PA nor should it. Adding a compatibility
layer just slows things down (witness DirectX -> OpenGL in Wine.)
Wine should not support PA, but support either ALSA or OSS (and OSS is
NOT dead.)
James McKenzie
