[Alsa-user] Alsa documentation (was I think that the current state of ALSA is poor)

2013-12-01 Thread Jan Newmarch
On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 20:23 +, alsa-user-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > i think alsa does things well and works nicely on my machine. > but it's a book with 7 seals to me, and i heard people say it's notoriously underdocumented. > which is probably the reason why it's so hard to find so

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> True. But your statement is sort of like saying the wheel is engineered >> incorrectly, when the wheel merrily missing lug nuts. >> >> (Likely your distribution flavor has a bug, requiring fixing. Quite common, >> especially with Debian. ;-) >>

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:16:28PM +0200, D.T.au wrote: >> hello, >> >> most of the examples you are giving are not about alsa but about other sound >> architectures that build on top of that, and software. >> i think you might want to do some readin

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:03:09AM -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: >> On Sun, 1 Dec 2013, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> On my way to become an advanced Linux user I started to learn >>> ALSA. However, it seems that ALSA, and sound system in general on >>>

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread wempwer
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 10:55:55PM +0100, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 12:24:04PM -0900, Roger wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:27:52PM +0100, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: > > >On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:16:28PM +0200, D.T.au wrote: > > >> hello, > > >> > > >> most of the

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread wempwer
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 12:24:04PM -0900, Roger wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:27:52PM +0100, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:16:28PM +0200, D.T.au wrote: > >> hello, > >> > >> most of the examples you are giving are not about alsa but about other > >> sound architec

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread Roger
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:27:52PM +0100, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: >On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:16:28PM +0200, D.T.au wrote: >> hello, >> >> most of the examples you are giving are not about alsa but about other sound >> architectures that build on top of that, and software. >> i think you might

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread wempwer
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 09:16:28PM +0200, D.T.au wrote: > hello, > > most of the examples you are giving are not about alsa but about other sound > architectures that build on top of that, and software. > i think you might want to do some reading, e.g. here: > http://tuxradar.com/content/how-it-w

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread wempwer
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:03:09AM -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2013, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: > > >On my way to become an advanced Linux user I started to learn > >ALSA. However, it seems that ALSA, and sound system in general on > >Linux, is in a pretty bad state at the moment. Here

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread D.T.au
hello, most of the examples you are giving are not about alsa but about other sound architectures that build on top of that, and software. i think you might want to do some reading, e.g. here: http://tuxradar.com/content/how-it-works-linux-audio-explained maybe you'll notice that the writer of th

Re: [Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013, wemp...@gmail.com wrote: > On my way to become an advanced Linux user I started to learn > ALSA. However, it seems that ALSA, and sound system in general on > Linux, is in a pretty bad state at the moment. Here are the examples - > don't get me wrong, fix me if I got things wro

[Alsa-user] I think that the current state of ALSA is poor

2013-12-01 Thread wempwer
On my way to become an advanced Linux user I started to learn ALSA. However, it seems that ALSA, and sound system in general on Linux, is in a pretty bad state at the moment. Here are the examples - don't get me wrong, fix me if I got things wrong: 1) my work computer with Ubuntu has HDA Intel PCH