From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261717AbVC3CId (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:08:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261719AbVC3CId (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:08:33 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:38065 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261717AbVC3CIa (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:08:30 -0500 Subject: Re: Mac mini sound woes From: Lee Revell To: Marcin Dalecki Cc: Takashi Iwai , Linux Kernel list , Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <0683ecb1e5fb577a703689d1962ad113@dalecki.de> References: <1111966920.5409.27.camel@gaston> <1112067369.19014.24.camel@mindpipe> <4a7a16914e8d838e501b78b5be801eca@dalecki.de> <1112084311.5353.6.camel@gaston> <0683ecb1e5fb577a703689d1962ad113@dalecki.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:08:28 -0500 Message-Id: <1112148508.5184.1.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 03:45 +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > On 2005-03-29, at 12:22, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > ALSA provides the "driver" feature in user-space because it's more > > flexible, more efficient and safer than doing in kernel. It's > > transparent from apps perspective. It really doesn't matter whether > > it's in kernel or user space. > > Yes because it's that wonder full linux sound processing sucks in > compare > to the other OSs out there doing it in kernel. What are you taking about? It's actually quite good. Have you actually tried these other OSes lately? These devices in question (those lacking hardware mixing and volume control) don't exactly work great under that OS. Lee