[Glastonbury] Calloo Callay

[tim hall]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 16:41, Martin Wheeler was like:
> [The trick is to realise that the Toshiba ac97 device does NOT like (not
> nohow) any form of ARTS or ALSA.
> Which is a bit of a bugger really, as bits of both usually get installed
> by default if you're using your box to demo multiple X managers, as I do.
> However, it just *lurvs* all things OSS.]

Well, being a self-confessed ALSA chauvinist, I find this very difficult to 
believe. The ac97 device normally works perfectly with ALSA, but as you still 
haven't told us what chipset you're using (I suspect the intel8x0) and you 
appear to have got round the fact that ALSA is in fact built in to the 2.6 
kernel and you're happy to use the less-free OSS, I will shake my head and 
let you get on with it. ;)

That said, I have serious suspicions that the snd-intel8x0 driver is buggy, 
which I guess may be the cause of your problems. Oh well.

IMO artsd and esd are bolt-on aberrations suitable only for ear candy, worth 
disabling everytime. Anyway, as I said, I'm extremely biased.
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cheers,

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim