Hallo, felipe hat gesagt: // felipe wrote: > I guess you all might find interesting this article I wrote: > > http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6720 A nice read and a fun article. But there are some minor errors in the first parts, that could need some clarification. Quote: "ALSA does not use /dev/dsp anymore, like already pointed out it uses devfs - now replaced by udev - virtual devices in /dev/snd/* that reflect the actual hardware found on the machine." This isn't true. ALSA does use /dev/dsp, or rather, it allows applictions to use this OSS device through its emulation. Also ALSA does not (have to) use devfs. ALSA runs just fine with the older device files. I never used devfs. "The "full-duplex" mode, that is the ability to record and to listen at the same time using a single audio card, was already possible using the old OSS indeed, thanks to some software called sound servers." Full duplex isn't the (main) job of a sound server like Esd or aRts, and OSS doesn't include a sound server. These servers normally allow more than one application to play sound at the same time, so they allow "mixing" like Dmix does now. You could get full-duplex on most modern cards with OSS/Free as well, withouth using a server. And I very much doubt, that aRts could enable full-duplex on cards that don't support full-duplex This just as my 2 cent remarks. Keep up the good work. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Ardour-users mailing list Ardour-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ardour-usersReceived on Wed Apr 14 16:35:03 2004
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