Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy 1.2 using CUSE

Takashi Iwai
2009-04-28T19:32:45Z

At Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:17:14 +0200,
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > In fact if something else is playing though ALSA and I start a
> > > playback through ossp, then ossp will print some errors, return EIO
> > > and get into a bad state, that it recoveres from only by starting the
> > > playback twice more (after stopping the other playback through ALSA).
> >
> > Are you using pulse plugin for ALSA, too?
>
> alsa-plugins-pulse package is installed. How can I find out if ALSA
> is actually using this plugin?

For example, if you start aplay with -v option, it'll show the plugins
to use.

> What is the disadvantage of non-native ALSA vs. native ALSA?

Well, the question is rather whether you need PA or not...

Takashi