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

Patrick Draper
2007-06-28T00:18:54Z

Rene Herman wrote:
> KDE has finally dropped aRts from KDE4 and, again, ALSA has been mixing
> by default for some time now so we're talking history anyway. You want
> mixing on your card? You got it.

I've been following this discussion with some interest, to learn more
about ALSA. I've been creating startup scripts for all of my sound-using
applications which look like this:

LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /usr/bin/alsaplayer "$*"

I found that without libaoss.so preloaded, I wasn't getting software
mixing at all. I'm constantly running an MP3 player, and with that
library I can get sound alerts from other apps too.

I don't understand exactly what you mean by ALSA mixing by default. I
have the OSS Mixer API selected during kernel compiles. Is that what you
are referring to?

Thanks,

Patrick