Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > First, please answer on the list only and not via group reply. There is
> no need to add my own address to the recipients.
>
> Am Do den 2. Jul 2015 um 12:37 schrieb Daniel Reurich:
> > >What will be the alternatives? ALSA never worked for me to a usefull
> > >state. It has partly translated config files but not in the parser,
> > >has always cracking sound and kernel panics. It lags the ability to
> > >play multiple streams and more.
> >
> > What sort of sound card/chipsets?
>
> Well, all sort from consumer grade to a bit betterones. I have to admit
> that I never tried a high end chipset.
>
> Currently I am using:
> ~> ossinfo
> Version info: OSS 4.2 (b 2010/201503091929) (0x00040100) GPL
> Platform: Linux/x86_64 4.0.7 #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 19:22:02 CET 2015 (ikki)
> [...]
> Device objects
> 0: osscore0 OSS core services
> 1: oss_hdaudio0 Intel HD Audio interrupts=4454425 (4454425)
> HD Audio controller Intel HD Audio
> Vendor ID 0x80863a3e
> Subvendor ID 0x10438357
> Codec 0: ALC888 (0x10ec0888/0x104383c0)
> 2: oss_usb0 USB audio core services
>
> MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)
>
> Mixer devices
> 0: High Definition Audio ALC888 (Mixer 0 of device object 1)
>
> Audio devices
> HD Audio play front /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0 (device index 0)
> HD Audio play rear /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm1 (device index 1)
> HD Audio play center/LFE /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm2 (device index 2)
> HD Audio play side /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm3 (device index 3)
> HD Audio play pcm4 /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm4 (device index 4)
> HD Audio play spdif-out /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout0 (device index 5)
> HD Audio play spdifout /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout1 (device index 6)
> HD Audio rec mix /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0 (device index 7)
> HD Audio rec mix /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1 (device index 8)
>
> But the most is due the really bad code quality of alsa.
> For example the localizing problem. I use tu have a locale that has the
> "," as decimal divider. Now, I have to write floating point values in
> .asound with a "," instead of a "." to get parsed but then, the code
> behind the parser does not know what to do with the ",".
If you are a casual user of ALSA, you won't need *any* .asoundrc.
> Another problem are the kernel panics that happens very often within
> alsa. The best what I get was about one hour between panics. Usual I get
> panics and oops after two minutes.
This is probably specific to your system/kernel/hardware.
ALSA is used very widely and reliably. More likely you need
help to troubleshoot your system.
You can try asking on the Linux Audio Users mailing list.
Cheers,
Joel
> > I've used it on Digital Audio
> > Workstations (using jackd) and had very little trouble like that. I can't
> > see pulseaudio being able to work around fundamental issues that alsa has
> > seen pulseaudio uses alsa.
> >
> > I've used it with pro and semi pro sound cards as well as all manner of
> > consumer chipsets and had very little issues.
> > >
> > >On the other hand, OSS (OSS4) did always work and is the easier to
> > >implement solution. It supports natively sound multiplexing and
> > >several channels.
> > >
> > >Unfortunately some applications does refuse to work with oss, even
> > >applications that was long OSS only (Teamspeak, commercial product)
> > >
> > >Pulsaudio was /one/ solution to mitigate that but no good solution as
> > >it adds many problems with sound.
> > >
> > >So I am interested in the strategy, devuan will go here.
> > >
> > I think we will support as many options as possible and let people choose.
> > But as with systemd, if any solution prevents being able to support other
> > solutions, then it's out the door.
> >
> > That said, pulseaudio should be amenable with a bit of 'gentle persuasion'
> > from my sledge hammer :P
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Reurich
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> > 021 797 722
> >
> Gruß
> Klaus
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