Need direction on alsa/oss sound.

[Randall Smith]

I'm running Debian Unstable and am very confused about how to set up the 
sound properly.  Sound generally works, but it seems a mess with OSS 
this and ALSA that and esd and arts and so on.  When I pull up the gnome 
mixer, it has an oss tab and an alsa tab.  Do I need both?  Both of them 
change the system's sound.

On a seperate note, I tried to record from microphone to a wave file 
using the rec program.  After fiddling with the mixer, I was able to 
record, but there was always background noise on playback even though I 
didn't hear the noise through my headphones while recording.  I got 
frustrated and quit (for now).

I'm generally confused about sound on linux oss/alsa/esd/arts...  Can 
someone recommend a good source to help me understand it better?  Thanks.

Randall
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