Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2)

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:15:28 +0200, Adam =?ISO-8859-2?B?VGxhs2th?= said:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:09:51 -0400
> Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:38:39 +0200, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Adam_Tla=B3ka?= said:
> > > U¿ytkownik Lee Revell napisa³:
> > >
> > > > esd and artsd are no longer needed since ALSA began to enable software
> > > > mixing by default in release 1.0.9.
> > >  >
> > > 
> > > So why they are still exist in so many Linux distributions?
> > 
> > As soon as somebody writes a patch to make the e16 window manager talk ALSA
> > rather than use esd, I'm heaving esd over the side.
> 
> Sorry to say but it is just not that way. Window manager is for managing windows
> and it shouldn't depend on any audio system. It should use an external app using exec call
> to play sounds (aplay, sox, wavplay etc.) configured by some config option.

So what you're saying is that something like 'esd' *is* needed.  (It's
certainly silly to keep doing fork/exec for every little sound sample when
you can just leave the app running and hand it requests...)

Either ALSA is up to the task, or it isn't and needs a front-end program
to babysit it. It doesn't matter if the program trying to play the sound
is a window manager, or an e-mail program, or something else....

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