On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:37:48PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > I know. But ALSA hides that in a library, so you never have to deal > with these ugly details. Ain't that great? Depends on the library. In ALSA's case, it's a particularly badly designed one, annoyingly enough. As an API, OSS is better. OG.