1 Jul
2009
1 Jul
'09
1:41 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM, <webmaster(a)seconnecticut.com> wrote:
I have two Ubuntu computers, one running 8.04 and the
other running 9.04.
Since Ubuntu is said to offer a RT kernel and a version that has been
customized for audio work, I was surprised to find that it is not so easy to
configure audio in Ubuntu. Debian recognized my SoundBlaster audigy card
immediately and used it. For Ubuntu the small app that is supposed to select
the sound card doesn't seem to do anything.
So I started asking questions of Google and found that there are a number of
people who are having difficulty configuring Soundblaster on Ubuntu. It
looks to be a chronic problem.
Aside from that SlashDot.org had a link to this last week, although it seems
to be vintage 2007.
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/welcome_to_the_jungle.html
There is a map of Linux Audio Applications that looks to be useful
documentation. Any comments on the rather critical note ?
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Welcome to the list. That map of applications is actually a map of
drivers, libraries, and daemons, and the ones that get talked about on
this list are alsa (driver), ffado (driver), jack (daemon), and
pulseaudio (daemon) mostly. Pulseaudio is controversial. The list
archives will provide you with many hundreds of pages of flamewars and
clarifications about these various interfaces for linux audio if you
find the topic interesting.