xmms & evolution
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Tue Dec 2 21:49:16 UTC 2003
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:00:02PM -0700, Rob Park wrote:
> Alexandre Strube wrote:
> >He's not the only one :-)
> >
> >I used to have a "killall esd" icon here just to unlock mozilla from
> >time to time... Now gone, since I'm using alsa :-)
>
> Well, I have an sblive, so my /dev/dsp can handle multiple sounds at
> once... which means I hate alsa because it's needless complication, and
> I hate esd because it's awful (XMMS's little visualisation window is out
> of sync with the music when it uses esd). So, gaim uses command 'play',
> and everything else uses OSS output, as far as I know.
A user of ALSA would never, ever denigrate it as "needless
complication".
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Jack Bowling
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