Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764399AbXF1DW0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:22:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760349AbXF1DWT (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:22:19 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]:9682 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756751AbXF1DWS (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:22:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=JP8+tOp5+ZjuniI6eSwG5YVzdinyGuZ5seAbK5NJ8cp5zUQR8K8AiTVaOC38PGPCbe+hBmGhbJLwPKjdCT/TuAECUeQ8sl/zC+ZjTc/ALBAVkbCcBk1TfTF4wMARIYCdSjM9W82+2npprGf1SLFCJQmKeN6rrlMpwtnZGe3vO/o= Message-ID: <75b66ecd0706272022i272669f7i1e0c9c8931f8b700@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:22:18 -0400 From: "Lee Revell" To: "Patrick Draper" Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? Cc: "Rene Herman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4683252B.9010205@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200706271825.17459.ahartmetz@gmail.com> <46829E82.6080804@gmail.com> <200706272110.50744.ahartmetz@gmail.com> <4682EEDD.4020501@gmail.com> <4682FE5C.5070004@gmail.com> <468315AF.1080105@gmail.com> <4683252B.9010205@gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 206c451a3398a071 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1378 Lines: 30 On 6/27/07, Patrick Draper wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: > > So -- the fact that mixing actually works for you when using libaoss > > means software mixing is working correctly for your ALSA setup. The only > > thing you should do is _use_ ALSA (natively) and not its OSS emulation > > so you can drop the library preload. > > Cool. How do I go about figuring out what every app uses? For example, > you mentioned that the flash 9 plugin, which I also use, is an ALSA > aware application. How do you know? I need the check out everything that > I use which needs sound (vmware, skype, kmplayer, etc.) I don't have > source code for at least two of those. Go into the sound preferences menu of the app and check which device it uses. If it's something like /dev/dsp or /dev/audio it's using OSS. If it looks like "default" or "hw:0" it's ALSA. If your app does not have any sound preferences menu it's broken and you should file a bug report. You can determine whether an app with no configurable sound device is using ALSA by running "strace broken_app" and grep the output for "/dev/dsp" or "/dev/audio". Lee - 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/