Am Do den 2. Jul 2015 um 18:40 schrieb Joel Roth:
> > 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.

Well, if you need sound in multiple applications, you need to configure
that under alsa in that file. If you have more than one or two speaker,
you need to configure that in this file and so on.

But true, if you just have one audio source and one or two speakers, you
don't need that file /usually/.

> > 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.

I don't think so. Without alsa, my systems are all very stable. It is
only alsa that adds instability in all kernels, independend if they are
from the distribution or if they are self compiled.

And if you have a look at the code of alsa, you do not wounder about
this instabilities.

> You can try asking on the Linux Audio Users mailing list.

No. I wrote some bug reports years ago but currently I don't care
anymore. There is a far better sound system with OSS4 that is just
working, has sound multiplexing without fiddling with some broken config
files and much better sound quality.

And I gave alsa several tries in the past, not only one.

Regards
   Klaus
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