xmms & evolution

[Jack Bowling]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:42:24PM -0700, Rob Park wrote:
> Jack Bowling wrote:
> >A user of ALSA would never, ever denigrate it as "needless
> >complication".
> 
> So then what does it DO? I mean, aside from duplicating hardware 
> functionality (multiple-channel audio) in software?
> 
> I've had problems with Alsa when I first started using linux, and it 
> really put me off ALSA. I don't see any point to having it, except for 
> complicating things for no reason.

This link says it better than I ever could:

http://www.eca.cx/lad/2002/Mar/0109.html

For myself, ALSA is the only framework that handles my Extigy USB
soundcard properly.

-- 
Jack Bowling
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