kernel vs. alsa?

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Shaun. But won't the timing issue come into play once it is integrated
in the next kernel tree? Unless you compile it as a module, I might be
able to see the above problem happening.

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Shaun Oliver wrote:

> 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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> 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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