Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2) | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:30:29 -0400 |
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:15:28 +0200, Adam =?ISO-8859-2?B?VGxhs2th?= said: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:09:51 -0400 > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:38:39 +0200, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Adam_Tla=B3ka?= said: > > > U¿ytkownik Lee Revell napisa³: > > > > > > > esd and artsd are no longer needed since ALSA began to enable software > > > > mixing by default in release 1.0.9. > > > > > > > > > > So why they are still exist in so many Linux distributions? > > > > As soon as somebody writes a patch to make the e16 window manager talk ALSA > > rather than use esd, I'm heaving esd over the side. > > Sorry to say but it is just not that way. Window manager is for managing windows > and it shouldn't depend on any audio system. It should use an external app using exec call > to play sounds (aplay, sox, wavplay etc.) configured by some config option.
So what you're saying is that something like 'esd' *is* needed. (It's certainly silly to keep doing fork/exec for every little sound sample when you can just leave the app running and hand it requests...)
Either ALSA is up to the task, or it isn't and needs a front-end program to babysit it. It doesn't matter if the program trying to play the sound is a window manager, or an e-mail program, or something else.... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |