> Also, I have sound in KDE already. So if I wanted to > use anything written for ALSA, I'd have to ditch my > current driver? No, you can KEEP Arts in KDE (actually, I just turn it off, Alsa's smart enough to handle things sent it's way). This is one of the ADVANTAGES of using Alsa vs OSS/Free (though I've got the paid version licensed, I just haven't compared it to Alsa yet). OSS/Free can NOT handle the sounds necessarily created by Arts or Esound (from what I've found out). Therefore, OSS/Free often conflicts and causes greater confusion than is necessary. I, myself didn't realize this untill I started using Drake's Cooker packages and found that things just weren't what they should be one morning:P
My advice: As I said before, wait a couple of weeks, download the new Drake (their release date is like Sept 19th at the latest) which ALREADY is moving towards Alsa support, and has the latest kernel source and everything, if you insist on using Drake. Remember, also that there's some of us that enjoy music inside of the console as well (mpg123, play, etc), and this is why you need a sound driver OUTSIDE of your Xwin system's driver. > How many Linux sound standards are there? This is > looking worse all the time... > Welcome to the world of continually developing software. This is what Open Source is all about, creative thinking, people joining together, working on projects, sometimes releasing, two, three versions a year.. As far as I'm aware, Alsa WILL become the kernel standard, beginning with 2.5(??), pretty much throwing out the older, more undeveloped OSS/Free ---------------------------------------------------- TJW: Head tech, Dreamless Realms Mud: http://dreamless.wolfstream.net Snippets http://dreamless.wolfstream.net/ Telnet dreamless.wolfstream.net:9275 The OLC Pages http://olc.wolfstream.net ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
