[linux-audio-dev] desktop audio resumed

[Ross Kendall Axe]

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Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 22:27 +0000, Maarten De Boer wrote:
> 
>>- if you use oss applications, make sure you use libaoss (or am I
>>wrong
>>here? does alsa pcm emulation use "default" as well?) 
> 
> 
> You are basically correct on all points, except that unfortunately skype
> does not seem to work with libaoss (it crashes), so can't be used with
> dmix.  This is probably a bug in libaoss, but we don't have a usable bug
> report, so nothing can be done about it.
> 
> So it seems that the only choice for skype users is to use the ALSA
> in-kernel OSS emulation which will block other apps.
> 
> Lee

It was in response to problems such as these that I began work on a
half-kernel, half-userspace system for emulating OSS devices.  It's been
a while since I've done anything with it but if there's any interest in
such a system I could put my code (such as it is) up for download.

Ross

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