Confused about ALSA and OSS, in Mandrake 10, KDE 4.3,with Audigy 2,
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Confused about ALSA and OSS, in Mandrake 10, KDE 4.3,with Audigy 2,
I have ALSA running and the snd-emu10k1 driver is running and working fine. My question is why my applications such as XMMS and Mplayer are using the OSS 1.2.9 driver (libOSS.so). I want to use ALSA alone, since im hearing it is better than OSS. Also, is it that the drivers work in tandem, meaning does ALSA run above the OSS driver?
ALSA has a compatpability layer for OSS, so programs that don't know ALSA still work.
You can reset xmms to use ALSA instead of OSS by changing the output plugin ( options->prefrences->Audio I/O Plugins ). You can also do the same with MPlayer. ( Prefrences(Wrench/Spanner)->Audio->Alsa 1x
oh nice, i thought i saw something about that somewhere but wasnt sure about it, one more thing, do i need arts for anything? or can i leave it disabled?
Arts is used by KDE, nearly all sound from KDE programs run through Arts. If your not bothered by not getting sound from them, you can leave it disabled.
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Confused about ALSA and OSS, in Mandrake 10, KDE 4.3,with Audigy 2,
