> > I don't like random applications blocking my sound card. > > So don't use random applications. > I imitated the style of the mail I replied to. Besides, choosing apps based on sound system is retarded if you wanted to indicate that this should be done more often or something.
> > You are concerned about your precious audio quality? Me too. Most people, > > however, are using god-awful plastic speakers for twenty euros and shitty > > onboard sound chips. Sad but true. > > Exactly, which is why mixing has been default for some time now for most > cards. Are you only ranting about how it should've been earlier? > Exactly! And the config file is hostile if you want to change it. > > ALSA appeared in 1999, KDE 2 with aRtsd (another catastrophic failure of > > technology) was released in october 2000. > > http://www.arts-project.org/gen/newsarchive/news_1998.html > KDE 2 *was* released in 2000. Why would you care, I already admitted that sound daemons were there before ALSA. > >> That sounds like a minor glitch that should be easily remedied if you > >> file a proper bug report. Have you tried? > > > > No, I kinda gave up on ALSA after reading its API (rather "functions > > that happen to be exported") documentation and kinda hoped it would go > > away ASAP. > > You give up reporting small hardware problems that bother you because the > application developer documentation for something is not in great shape? Yep, because I was frustrated with the whole thing. Having huge bad APIs with no documentation is telling your fellow developers to piss off and do something else. I did. It's not like a little oversight to be quickly forgotten. ALSA has been there for at least *five years* without documentation for most parts. > > hacking (i.e. more features faster). Latency is an issue? - Well you > > can't play sound without userspace creating it so you're not adding any > > new problems. > > Capture. > If you are not doing DMA from the sound card to kernel memory and then directly to disk blocks, you are using user space apps period. So what's different with capture? > Rene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/