Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > 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.

Good you found a solution. I will be interested to try it out.

Cheers,

Joel

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

> Regards
>    Klaus
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