On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 20:07, Bryan C Dunne wrote: > In general, the ALSA drivers are considered better than the old OSS/Free drivers. In fact, ALSA is replacing OSS as the default sound system in the linux kernel as of 2.6. > > Whether you go to the trouble of switching from OSS to ALSA on Fedora 1 depends on how well your system currently works. I have a P.O.S. ;-) motherboard with a low-end AC 97 compatible chipset. The sound quality isn't great under the OSS (it chirps :-). The ALSA drivers, however, work great for me. YMMV > > Cheers, > Bryan > -- > ****************************************** > Bryan C Dunne > Deaprtment of Astronomy > E-Mail: bdunne@xxxxxxxx > > "Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an > annual free trip around the sun." > Try not to follow the read me's too and do not be too intimidated by them because i have found that most of them just go around in circles just telling you the same redundant crap you already know... It's not nearly as hard as the read me's make it sound... Install the libs, the module, the drivers, and edit one file and do a few modprobes and that's about all she wrote.... There is a difference in sound with the alsa drivers vs. the oss drivers, they are significantly more powerful and much more refined sounding...
