I agree, the .asoundrc docs are great, and I've been having a lot of fun finally delving into the various plugins. The flexibility is truly amazing!
As for the insulting nature of too many posts here (and I don't mean those having a decent discussion of ways to improve things), all I can say is that I've been using ALSA since 0.5.x, and its performance has been flawless. PCM, MIDI, the whole thing. It's allowed me to do things, even with a cheap sound card, that are impossible on any other platform. That's my experience, I'm sure other people with different hardware have had different experiences. Yes, I've had problems updating from time to time, but the results have been well worth it. I salute the developers and users who've devoted so much time and talent to this wonderful project. All I can say to anyone is, if you don't like it, don't use it. And hopefully this list will return to something pertaining to its intended purpose instead of a rant by those wanting Linux to become just another brain-dead Windoze clone. That, hopefully, will never happen. Again, I'm not referring to those wishing to improve things, we all need more of that attitude. In the meantime, I'm going to unsub and check things again in a month or so. Thanks to all for the many *positive* posts, criticisms and suggestions. Take care, Steve > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Kai Vehmanen wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> My biggest personal issue with ALSA is that I have been so far unable to > >> find any documentation that explains what the configuration file > >> directives represent. I don't know about you but I find it a lot easier > [..] > > -level showstopper. Also, as not everyone has needed to edit these files, > > less documentation has been written. I guess this will change now that we > > have dmix/dsnoop and other plugins. > > ... and it has. For example the ALSA wiki provides this: > > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=.asoundrc > > ... that's in my opinion more than enough to get you started (with > references to more detailed docs and all). > > -- > http://www.eca.cx > Audio software for Linux! ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
