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 mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
