Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-28T05:15:09Z

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:04 -0500, Patrick Draper wrote:
> Rene Herman wrote:
> > So -- the fact that mixing actually works for you when using libaoss
> > means software mixing is working correctly for your ALSA setup. The only
> > thing you should do is _use_ ALSA (natively) and not its OSS emulation
> > so you can drop the library preload.
>
> Cool. How do I go about figuring out what every app uses? For example,
> you mentioned that the flash 9 plugin, which I also use, is an ALSA
> aware application. How do you know? I need the check out everything that
> I use which needs sound (vmware, skype, kmplayer, etc.) I don't have
> source code for at least two of those.

run ldd on the binary...