On Friday 22 Aug 2003 1:19 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2003 02:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I don't have anything at all about ALSA. I have two entries > > concerning External Midi Device. As I told Steffen, the second > > (selected one) looks absolutely normal, showing EMU10K1 Midi, but > > the first one has > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@e - External Midi Port - but instead of o there is a small > > square. > > > > This is an Audigy Platinum, btw, in case that makes any > > difference (don't see why it should). > > > > I'm puzzled about this ALSA bit. Why am I getting no reference > > to ALSA? Any ideas? > > There are two different sound driver architectures for Linux. OSS > and ALSA. I use Alsa because I read that OSS is older and > supposedly not as good. You might be using OSS in which case, you > can install Alsa and you should be able to switch over to it and > your sound problems might improve. My own sound card was > originally detected and set to OSS but I switched it, again because > I read that Alsa was better. > I understand that, but alsa is installed. As you found, the default is to use oss. How did you switch it to use alsa?
Anne
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