From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Pitt Subject: Switch to dmix pure by default? Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:44:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20051019154420.GA14091@piware.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: ALSA Development List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi ALSA developers! I'm Martin Pitt, one of Ubuntu's core developers, and I hacked a fair bit around a better audio support in our latest release. We currently use ALSA 1.0.9 (thus with dmix enabled by default) and use esd on top of that since dmix pure still does not work on too many cards (including the powermac driver on my iBook). However, since esound sucks particularly in terms of A/V synchronisation and has annoying bugs, and the whole concept of a desktop sound daemon is more like a workaround than a sane piece in the software stack, we would like to drop esound entirely and just use ALSA by default in the future. I imagine that this is true for other Linux distros as well. Now I have several questions: 1) Are you guys interested in reports about cards which do not work with dmix (at least not with the default configuration)? 2) Is there a document which describes dmix debugging, so that we can already pre-process bug reports, can sort them out faster, make it easier for you, and maybe even can help you with fixing? 3) As it appears to me, dmix is a pure software mixing plugin, thus from the mere concept, it seems hardware agnostic to me. Why does it fail on some hardware in the first place? Thank you in advance, and have a nice day! Martin --=20 Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDVmnUDecnbV4Fd/IRAu0tAKCb21zOeDGqUfWGONGXlX4FTVEzpACgni1Q 86lyzSQTrecPAZAbMwuiDCY= =+9Z+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl