[wellylug] Linux sound -- opinions needed ... please.

[Donald Gordon]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:46:14 +1300
Nigel Walters <lizh at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> First off I don't have any problems actually getting things to work. I am 
> just not sure which is the best of a number of choices.
> 
> Firstly at the kernel level there is the choice between OSS and ALSA. At the 
> moment I am using OSS stuff and will switch to ALSA when I get round to it.

OSS is the path of least resistance at the moment; ALSA requires kernel
patches (but may be your only choice if OSS doesn't support your
soundcard).  For the upcoming 2.6 kernel series, ALSA will be the
default (IIRC).

> Next the choice of sound servers
> 
> esd : the gnome sound server. Produces pretty dreadfuil sound and does not 
> seem to have any active development ?!

I can only assume there's something odd going on if it produces dreadful
sound; it works fine for me :-) - how did you discern that it's not
under active development?

> I want to use a single sound server at least under the two main desktop 
> enviroments ( and preferably other window managers too.) Which one is the one 
> to go with ? (it might of course not be on the list !)

The problem you'll encounter is that some software will support esd,
some will support arts, some will support both; generally, using the
default one for your desktop environment is a good idea.  Practically
nothing you're likely to use under linux supports NAS :-(

don

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