Re: 2.6 sound drivers?

From: Ookhoi <ookhoi@humilis.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>,
	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: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:11:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030717131112.GA31425@favonius> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1058443806.8615.32.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

Alan Cox wrote (ao):
> 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)

I feel enlightened ;-)

> 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

What would be a better choice than esd?