6 Jan
2015
6 Jan
'15
10:58 p.m.
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 18:13:51 +0100, Raffaele Morelli
wrote:
All I see on the web page from the OP is the Alsa libraries and packages
for the Alsa tools (user space stuff). I still don't see where you can
actually put Alsa itself into your kernel and get yourself beyond OSS
style sound and its /dev/dsp mentality. For some of the nicer audio
cards (from RME for example) with lots and lots of inputs, that would be
really nice. (See the state of FreeBSD audio here, especially their
progress on trying to create an Envy24 driver:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound)
So FreeBSD will give you OSS-style drivers in the kernel, and no
realtime. It's impressive that they've done the work necessary to get
Ardour to run in that environment (and sort of work), but it still makes
me ask...why? Until there are some improvements in their kernel, it
makes about as much sense as trying to run Ardour on Solaris/sparc.
?alsa is there? and compiling a kernel it's
not that hard
https://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html
As far as I know this is impossible or at least not easy to do.
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/oss.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System#Free.2C_proprietary.2C_free
The solution I'm using is offered by Gentoo -- eudev. They've forked
the udev codebase from before the introduction of systemd as a necessary
dependency, and they've been merging in changes and updates ever since.
If you run Gentoo, you can install eudev and totally free yourself from
systemd. It'd be nice to see the other distros start picking eudev up
as well.
They also let you turn off PulseAudio support in a $USE flag, so that
nothing on your system will even look for the libraries because nothing
will be compiled for it.
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?apt-get purge pulseaudio systemd
apt-get? install sysvinit
To avoid pulseaudio there are several solutions. Avoiding systemd
likely will be impossible soon. At least the kernel is protected
against some rash implementations, since Linus Torvalds doesn't like
Kay Sievers that much. However, if you want to stay with Linux, get
used to binary log files and other hard changes of Linux policies.
Unlikely that in the close future Linux still will work without
systemd. Assumed it should still work without systemd, at least
initscripts likely need a replacement.