Re: alsalib



Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
This should works for any program using OSS (this covers most unfriendly
ones, like Mozilla plugin, OpenOffice or vmware, ...), or ALSA in
emulation mode (for native mode, alsalib is our friend :-).

Meaning that solution provided by native ALSA is better than the one
provided when ALSA is emulating OSS (i.e., application accesses /dev/dsp
device, which is OSS port for sound). ALSA is rather complex beast
consisting of kernel modules (default sound in 2.6.* kernels) and number of
user-space packages; to get their list run:

dpkg -l \*alsa\* | grep -v player

What I understand from the message (and I have no idea, about the context)
is that you should forget about OSS and ALSA-emulating-OSS, but rather use
ALSA natively (which is what I would suggest anyway).

Best,

Matěj

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