[desktop-discuss] ALSA on spec-files-extra

[Dev Mazumdar]

> I have just committed SFEalsa-lib, SFEalsa-utils, and
> SFEalsa-plugins to spec-files-extra on sourceforge.
> As you can guess the alsa-driver is NOT included. No
> problems. Since SFEalsa-plugins has a plugin to talk
> to a OSS audio device you can configure ALSA to
> output sound using a OSS. There is a sample
> /etc/asound.conf installed with SFEalsa-plugins to
> link alsa-lib -> OSS.
> 
> For applications which can use both ALSA and OSS I do
> not think there would be any benefit using ALSA, so
> you should add the '--disable-alsa' option to
> configure.
> 
> Please note that this is 'version 1' of the port and
> there will be some bugs. Currently, I know that
> speaker-test gives an error (though I have a good
> idea what the problem is). Therefore you should treat
> the port as alpha quality....
> 
> Enjoy
> Doug

Hi Doug,

This is great news!.

Kindly cross post in OpenSound-discuss in future so that people interested in audio can start contributing. 

BTW, have you worked on a port of Jack+OSS on Solaris?. 


regards
Dev Mazumdar
 
 
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