Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Austin
On 09/04/2003 10:52:30 PM, Paul Dorman wrote: Hence the benefit of a gui... Audio SETTINGS (advanced) -- JACK settings: As I said, this in now handled by qjackctl. ALSA settings [import] [export] Driver [ ] blah blah Draksound does this, but kinda cr

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
On Friday 05 September 2003 11:59, Austin wrote: > On 09/04/2003 07:43:50 PM, Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Austin wrote: > > > > * Auto start up of JACK. > > > > > > Nobody wants jack running all the time. > > > > No, but it isn't nice for a user to start Ardour from the menu (withou

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Austin
On 09/04/2003 07:43:50 PM, Buchan Milne wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Austin wrote: > > * Auto start up of JACK. > > Nobody wants jack running all the time. No, but it isn't nice for a user to start Ardour from the menu (without starting a jackd), and be booted out. One slashdot user thought Ardour w

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Austin wrote: > > * Auto start up of JACK. > > Nobody wants jack running all the time. No, but it isn't nice for a user to start Ardour from the menu (without starting a jackd), and be booted out. One slashdot user thought Ardour was buggy/badly packaged because of this,

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 09.04, Paul Dorman wrote: > Hi all again! > > I am wondering how difficult it would be to add an audio system section to the > Mandrake Control Center. It would: > > * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA as the default (configuring the correct > module settings) I would start in a lower le

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Austin
On 09/04/2003 04:50:24 PM, Paul Dorman wrote: I am wondering how difficult it would be to add an audio system section to the Mandrake Control Center. It would: * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA as the default (configuring the correct Yes, this is available, but it not intuitive, not clear, an

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I meant neglected by packager, but no disrespect intended...just hadn't > been updated for a while, it looks a bit forlorn next to 2.4.22 main and > 2.4.22tmb and 2.6.0 contrib kernels :D > Well, it is a damn big patch, and new kernel has a lot of c

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 22:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > I agree with your criticism of draksound, but I don't think it's > > actually the cause of the problem identified in those reviews. I had > > several people report the same problem to me w

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 22:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > we have kernel-multimedia (though it's sadly neglected)...no need for an > > application to "enable" it, really, you "enable" it by installing it > > with urpmi / rpmdrake and rebooting...

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I agree with your criticism of draksound, but I don't think it's > actually the cause of the problem identified in those reviews. I had > several people report the same problem to me without ever having touched > the settings; it seems some sblives t

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > we have kernel-multimedia (though it's sadly neglected)...no need for an > application to "enable" it, really, you "enable" it by installing it > with urpmi / rpmdrake and rebooting... as in: neglected by packager, or neglected by users? current 2.4

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 22:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > > > * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA as the default (configuring the correct > > > module settings) > > > > already done by draksound. > > Point of critizism about draksound: some

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread danny
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA as the default (configuring the correct > > module settings) > > already done by draksound. Point of critizism about draksound: some reviews of 9.1 (IIRC) claimed that audigy driver was incorrectly loaded

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 22:08, Paul Dorman wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 08:53, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 21:50, Paul Dorman wrote: > > > Hi all again! > > > > > > I am wondering how difficult it would be to add an audio system section > > > to the Mandrake Control Cente

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
On Friday 05 September 2003 08:53, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 21:50, Paul Dorman wrote: > > Hi all again! > > > > I am wondering how difficult it would be to add an audio system section > > to the Mandrake Control Center. It would: > > > > * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA a

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 21:50, Paul Dorman wrote: > Hi all again! > > I am wondering how difficult it would be to add an audio system section to the > Mandrake Control Center. It would: > > * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA as the default (configuring the correct > module settings) already d

[Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all again! I am wondering how difficult it would be to add an audio system section to the Mandrake Control Center. It would: * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA as the default (configuring the correct module settings) * Automatic creation of asoundrc * Allow the user to specify how the sou