[Semi-OT] OSS audio vs ALSA

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:42:20 +0100
Alan Cox wrote:

> Anyway if you have a volume/quality difference its either in the megaton
> of desktop plumbing or a funny in one of the AC97 or HDMI codec drivers
> and in each case simply means you have some specific local configuration
> thats either broken somewhere or an obscure system config specific kernel
> bug.

I don't know about that, I think there is something subtle going on with
fedora's configuration or build or something. I personally don't care
that much about sound quality, but when I have installed other distros
on the same hardware (other distros that also use alsa like ubuntu
and suse), I've noticed that the sound was better on them. Playing
a silly game like neverputt, the sound will almost always have a bit
of crackling on fedora that does not show up in the others.