On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: > > Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume > aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this > out at the moment) > It comes from alsa-oss. This package gets compiled automatically, as a dependency, if you enable +oss use flag with alsa-driver
> > On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on > linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound > server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What purpose do sound > servers serve? > If you check out mailing list archives of sometime back, you'll find me asking exactly the same question. At that time I was using aRts with KDE, and was experiencing nothing but problems. I did not get any concrete replies to this particular question i.e. "Why use a sound server anyways?". Just to see how things turn out, I disabled aRts and don't face any problems till now. I am using ALSA directly. You can also try disabling esd and see how things go for you. If you face any problems then you can enable it again, but I personally don't see any reason to use a sound server. -- Regards, Abhay
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