Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:22:18 -0400 | From | "Lee Revell" <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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On 6/27/07, Patrick Draper <pdraper@gmail.com> wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: > > So -- the fact that mixing actually works for you when using libaoss > > means software mixing is working correctly for your ALSA setup. The only > > thing you should do is _use_ ALSA (natively) and not its OSS emulation > > so you can drop the library preload. > > Cool. How do I go about figuring out what every app uses? For example, > you mentioned that the flash 9 plugin, which I also use, is an ALSA > aware application. How do you know? I need the check out everything that > I use which needs sound (vmware, skype, kmplayer, etc.) I don't have > source code for at least two of those.
Go into the sound preferences menu of the app and check which device it uses. If it's something like /dev/dsp or /dev/audio it's using OSS. If it looks like "default" or "hw:0" it's ALSA.
If your app does not have any sound preferences menu it's broken and you should file a bug report.
You can determine whether an app with no configurable sound device is using ALSA by running "strace broken_app" and grep the output for "/dev/dsp" or "/dev/audio".
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