On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:33:10 +0100 Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > but if I set alsaplayer SUID root the application won't work > > because GTK refuse to start a SUID gtk application. > > This complain should go to the GTK folks. They thought they were > trying to do something good, but it doesn't work out in the end. xcdroast is a GTK program that make some SUID work in the proper way (which is the way intended by GTK guys). I think that running a GTK application as SUID root is really a security risk, but may be you prefer the Windoze philosophy about security :-) > > Yet another problem: ALSA seems to be more CPU intensive of OSS. In > > particular some simple games with sound support and using SDL cannot > > work decently of my PC while thet works very well with OSS. The CPU > > get a very heavy load and the sound is badly scattered (buffer > > underrun I suppose). May be this happens because SDL open > > "plughw:0,0" by default instead of "hw:0,0" and the sound is subject > > to software resampling ? > > Yes, this may be. What card do you have? AWE64 > > I've verified that my PC can play MP3 without any problem but > > I've not compared the CPU load with OSS. > > I want to stress that this is a MAJOR problem because SDL are > > widely used. > > I've found that SDL-apps generally work better when they run in OSS > mode (even with ALSA's emulation). ok, but my question is : why ? About the sfxload : I've understood that until now sfxload only works with OSS emulation. I'm also happy to know that Mr. Takashi Iwai is working to a native sfxload. Many thanks to everyone for the help. -- Francesco Abbate ------------------------------------------------------- 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
