From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271443AbTGQL6C (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:58:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271442AbTGQL6C (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:58:02 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:23758 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271441AbTGQL5v (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:57:51 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6 sound drivers? From: Alan Cox To: Ed Sweetman Cc: ookhoi@humilis.net, Takashi Iwai , Linux Kernel Mailing List , eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net In-Reply-To: <3F168920.8080007@wmich.edu> References: <20030716225826.GP2412@rdlg.net> <20030716231029.GG1821@matchmail.com> <20030716233045.GR2412@rdlg.net> <1058426808.1164.1518.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> <20030717085704.GA1381@eugeneteo.net> <20030717111958.GB30717@favonius> <3F168920.8080007@wmich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1058443806.8615.32.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 17 Jul 2003 13:10:07 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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