Re: [Alsa-user] config questions, definitions

2006-05-02 Thread Clemens Ladisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (1) what do soundcore and snd do? > > I assume one provides the ALSA api, but what about the other? soundcore provides functions for allocating OSS devices, so it's used by both the OSS drivers and by ALSA's OSS emulation. snd is the basic module of the ALSA framework

[Alsa-user] config questions, definitions

2006-04-30 Thread akb+lists . alsa-user
Hi-- I was looking over the config data I just sent, and I'd love some explanations. (1) what do soundcore and snd do? I assume one provides the ALSA api, but what about the other? (2) why do some apps grab a control channel and others not? (2A) what's a control channel control, anyway? Exa