On Friday 16 January 2004 17:59, Steve Conrad wrote: >In the past I always kept away from sound on linux, because it > sucked. > >Somewhat reluctantly, I gave it another stab last month and enjoyed > a brief blaze of funtionality during which time I was able to > sequence a number of my compositions with Rosegarden. Then > suddenly, my speakers blew and the sblive I'd been using kept > making a screaming sound that offered to blow any more speakers I > connected to it. I slapped in another sblive, but now nothing can > be done to make it work. Suspecting the machine was damaged in some > way, I cobbled together another test machine on which to test the > card. Same results. Alsamixer won't run and no sound. Card works > fine on FreeBSD and under windows, so it's not a hardware issue. > The new card must differ from the old in some way not well > accomodated by alsa. > >I've been screwing around with this alsa crap for weeks now with no > resolution in sight, and no helpful advice from this mailing list > regarding my earlier posting. > >I'm a sysadmin used to working with the details of network services, > so I'm not exactly hopeless at this sort of stuff. But I just keep > getting dragged deeper into the squalid intricacies of linux and > alsa with no return of satisfaction. > >While linux can do many things well, sound isn't one of them. With a > copy of Cakewalk going $129, I can't really justify wasting anymore > of my time on this very shitty software arrangement. > >Alsa is no good. It's rickety and unreliable. No serious musician > would waste their time with this bullshit.
Other than that, how was your day? :-) Seriously, alsa, with oss emulation enabled, and nothing exterior to the kernal loaded other than the application on this board with a builtin 2 channel bondout AC97 emulating VIA 8233, 99% of what I want to do is supported out of the box with the 2.6.1-mm kernels. Audigy runs rather well, as does xmms, tvtime, and mozilla even fired up timidity here a couple of weeks ago on a midized web site. It played rather nicely but did eat 75% of this 1450Mhz cpu doing it. I would suggest that you are basicly a windoze user and aren't really satisfied with linux. If Cakewalk is your cup of tea, so beit. I'm not personally a real audio state of the art user, and yes I've seen cakewalk run. We have several similary capable apps, probably not all in one box, but they are around. But don't come here and insult the authors of the sofware you downloaded for free, and expect to have them get out their crystal ball and read your mind as to whats possibly miss-configured, not after yelling at them like this. Help is not going to happen with that attitude. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
