From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
Cc: ookhoi@humilis.net, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net
Subject: Re: 2.6 sound drivers?
Date: 17 Jul 2003 13:10:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058443806.8615.32.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F168920.8080007@wmich.edu>
On Iau, 2003-07-17 at 12:31, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> > Wouldn't esd (the enlightment sound daemon) take care of this in
> > userspace? I can have sound out of xmms, firebird, mpg321 and mplayer at
> > the same time with esd.
>
> Most people would rather not use esd, especially when you dont need to
> use any userspace deamon to do the job.
There are lots of reasons for not using esd (its sucky frequency code
for example) but you do need a userspace daemon because the alsa kernel
side mixing stuff doesn't handle network connections - and nor would you
want it to.
X is a networked environment, Gnome is a networked desktop, therefore
you need networked audio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-17 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-16 22:58 2.6 sound drivers? Robert L. Harris
2003-07-16 23:10 ` Rudo Thomas
2003-07-16 23:29 ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-16 23:46 ` Rudo Thomas
2003-07-16 23:10 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-16 23:30 ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-16 23:39 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-16 23:46 ` David Ford
2003-07-17 0:08 ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-17 1:07 ` Wes Janzen
2003-07-17 1:42 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-07-17 7:26 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-17 8:57 ` Eugene Teo
2003-07-17 9:22 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-17 11:19 ` Ookhoi
2003-07-17 11:31 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-07-17 12:10 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-17 13:11 ` Ookhoi
2003-07-17 11:32 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-16 23:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-16 19:25 ` Max Valdez
2003-07-17 1:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17 2:18 ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-17 13:13 ` Ian Hastie
2003-07-17 13:25 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-17 13:19 ` Terje Kvernes
2003-07-17 16:08 ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-17 11:22 ` Max Valdez
2003-07-17 16:54 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-17 18:43 ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-17 19:44 ` Ian Hastie
2003-07-18 9:45 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-17 18:46 ` dacin
2003-07-17 19:12 ` MONOLITHIC sound (was Re: 2.6 sound drivers?) Douglas J Hunley
2003-07-17 20:09 ` dacin
2003-07-16 23:39 ` 2.6 sound drivers? Robert L. Harris
2003-07-16 23:57 ` Matt Reppert
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