Re: Reg: Sound Card Duplex

[Marc Lehmann]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 09:00:07AM -0400, Paul Barton-Davis <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >However, the oss emulation of alsa is hardly if ever working, and "just
> >recompiling" rarely helps (unless the program explicitly support alsa).
> 
> This is NOT true, certainly not in general. It is true that right now,

It's true for all my soundcards (opti c931, sb16, sb live!, only the
last one with the cvs version (since the latest release doesn't support
emu10k1)).

> But to say that it is "hardly if ever" working is exaggerating a

It's pure fact ;-> playback works with rare glitches, o.k., but recording
simply does not work without horrendeous glitches. Neither sox nor my own
program nor snd can continuously record streams.

> lot. Perhaps there is some specific problem with the particular kind
> of sound card you are using.

I doubt it ;) It really looks like some generic incompatibility.

> Its also not true that you need to recompile applications to get them
> to work with ALSA's OSS emulation mode

I didn't claim that...

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