Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271453AbTGQM4Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:56:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271454AbTGQM4P (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:56:15 -0400 Received: from ookhoi.xs4all.nl ([213.84.114.66]:43484 "EHLO favonius.humilis.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271453AbTGQM4O (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:56:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:11:12 +0200 From: Ookhoi To: Alan Cox Cc: Ed Sweetman , ookhoi@humilis.net, Takashi Iwai , Linux Kernel Mailing List , eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net Subject: Re: 2.6 sound drivers? Message-ID: <20030717131112.GA31425@favonius> Reply-To: ookhoi@humilis.net 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> <1058443806.8615.32.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1058443806.8615.32.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Uptime: 15:08:29 up 38 days, 2:49, 32 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 27 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/