-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Henri Beauchamp wrote:
> I personally got all audio device usage conflicts solved by getting rid > of ALSA and *all* sound wrappers/daemons (pulseaudio, esd, jackit, arts, > you name it) and installing OSS v4.1 (http://www.opensound.com/oss.html). > Henri, that is unfortunately not an option for the majority of Linux users. They do not have neither the skills nor the means to install this version of OSS. Distros will not ship it, because it is not free (libre) software. The current trend is the standardization on PulseAudio that provides more features than just software mixing - e.g. transparent moving of audio streams between devices (SL using speakers, but when I want to use voice, I could move the sound to my headset instead), hot plugging of devices and many other things. I am not advocating Pulse here, it has its own share of problems (mainly stability), but it seems to be the emerging standard sound system on Linux. Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva all ship it by default, Suse probably too. SL works with PulseAudio quite fine because Pulse behaves as both Alsa device if a plugin is installed (e.g. Ubuntu and Mandriva does that by default) and can provide also the esound (esd) API. The only part that is not working right is the voice part - the chosen device is ignored (e.g. I ask voice to play on headphones, but it still comes out of the speakers) and enabled voice crashes the PulseAudio server after a while. Regards, Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJukWjn11XseNj94gRAq/8AJ9Vobj6irGUFyS6nbrwXMT9bquJTQCfVdTI 8nlEuq2uti5aiTEyEMEu2Cg= =xkgK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
