linux-kernel - Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

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Message-Id: <1183007614.2662.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:13:34 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Patrick Draper <pdraper@...il.com>
Cc:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:04 -0500, Patrick Draper wrote:
> Rene Herman wrote:
> > So -- the fact that mixing actually works for you when using libaoss 
> > means software mixing is working correctly for your ALSA setup. The only 
> > thing you should do is _use_ ALSA (natively) and not its OSS emulation 
> > so you can drop the library preload.
> 
> Cool. How do I go about figuring out what every app uses? For example, 
> you mentioned that the flash 9 plugin, which I also use, is an ALSA 
> aware application. How do you know? I need the check out everything that 
> I use which needs sound (vmware, skype, kmplayer, etc.) I don't have 
> source code for at least two of those.

run ldd on the binary...


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