On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 13:11 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > You can probably see what sound systems you have by playing a wav file > through "play" (OSS), "aplay" (ALSA), "artsplay" (aRts), "esdplay" > (ESounD) and "paplay" (Pulse). If any commands don't exist, or don't > play the wav, then you're not using that system.
Thank you that you didn't mention jackd ;), 'cause jackd is professional and easy to use, while all the other sound servers are consumer crap and you need to read tons of manuals to use them ... many people experience stuff like pulseaudio as not working with their sound devices, so they drop Linux and use Windoof instead. I'm not talking about the pro-audio Linux users, our cards don't work with pulseaudio, but we know what to do. Pulseaudio is one of Linux serious issues, that cause that folks who are Windoof users, testing Linux, will drop Linux forever and instead they'll follow Windoof. > I would suggest using OSS (play, record etc). IIRC, Debian 5.0 would > have been around the time that ALSA was supplanting OSS, so either > you're still using OSS or you'll have ALSA with OSS compatibility > enabled. For Lenny OSS already should be obsolete. The backend always should be ALSA and not OSS. And please use ALSA directly or jackd only. Btw. Jack2 seems to be more reliable on some machines. - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1340632681.1349.40.camel@localhost.localdomain
