linux badly needs a standard sound daemon

Steve Bergman steve at rueb.com
Fri Dec 12 18:51:46 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 11:53, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

> Yes, but IIRC ALSA mixes the sound inputs automatically thus software
> like ESD and ARTS become unneeded.
> 

There is still the issue of network transparency.  What we really need
is ALSA plus a sound extension to X.  Having sound respect the $DISPLAY
variable would be great.





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