On Nov 17, 2007 6:58 PM, sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be obvious, but not to me. > > Why does sound seem to be so complicated on Linux? > There seem to be so many pieces to get sound. > I have been thinking about this trying to get sound working on LTSP. > > There is ALSA, OSS, Gnome and KDE have their needed daemons to work > properly among others. I think freedesktop is working on MAS. > > Then other such things as ESD, GStreamer, Phonon, PulseAudio and > whatever else there might be skulking about. > > Is anyone able to give me an idea why it seems so chaotic? > I believe in free choice, but this seems overkill and more of a major > headache.
Linux Journal has an article all about this in this month's issue.
_______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
