[wellylug] Sound servers under active development.

[Nigel Walters]

Donald (Thanks for the reply)
> 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 :-) 
Are you using this for the full range of sound usage or just desktop
squeaks ? Are you recommnending esd over artsd ?

> - how did you discern that it's not
> under active development?
> 
I checked the home site to see if there was any recent news. I know
that's not fool-proof but perhaps a reasonable guide.


Nigel


On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:56, Donald Gordon wrote:
> 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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