Sound systems (Was:) Re: software synth on old laptop

[Willem van der Walt]

Alsa if it works, because that is where future development is taking place 
and it generally allows for better control over the sound cards.


On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Chris Norman wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I am just thinking, which is better? OSS or ALSA?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris Norman
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> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: software synth on old laptop
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> > Aplay is an alsa program, so it won't work with oss. You need to use
> > play instead, if you're using oss.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:25:00PM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> >> Do I have to use alsa sound drivers to use speakup with espeak?
> >>
> >> I've installed alsa-utils and I've run alsaconf but there seems to be a
> >> problem. I get error messages that it can't find device 0. I have this
> >> really old laptop with a Sound Blaster 8 built in. I've loaded the 
> >> correct
> >> modues manually 'modprobe snd-sb8' but no matter what I do, I can't seem 
> >> to
> >> get sound at all via the alsa drivers.
> >>
> >> The oss drivers work fine.  But I can't get speech-dispatcher to work 
> >> with
> >> espeak. I saw that in the espeak config file, it calls aplay. And aplay
> >> won't work possibly because I'm not using the alsa drivers. Am I on the
> >> right track here?
> >>
> >>
> >>
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