kernel vs. alsa?

[Shaun Oliver]

the reason people like alsa is because alsa is userspace and handles only
sound.
the kernel drivers have to fight fortiming and as a result sometimes place
unecissary load on the system.
hth


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Shaun

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On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi all. I am having pretty bad luck getting beta11 of the alsa package to
> work. Beta9 work well with some quirks. I wonder what has so drastically
> changed in beta11 that makes it so much harder to get working? Anyway, my
> question is why does everyone like the alsa drivers better than the oss
> modules? One thing that I've heard is that the oss modules don't use full
> duplex. Is this correct? The only reason why I ask is because I am
> considering switching from alsa to the 2.4.18 sound modules to hopefully
> fix my problem with not being able to play wavs with trplayer.
>
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