there is one area where alsa is better than the OSS driver for sblive cards...
and its the support for sounds fonts (sound fonts are premade banks of midi
samples which can be loaded into the card thus giving a much better sounding
instruments on the midi playback). this feature lacks in both th
Quoting Hetz Ben-Hamo, from the post of Sun, 17 Nov:
> In other cases - ALSA simply sucks - like in the case of old notebooks
> (opl3, opl3sa2, etc..) - the driver doesn't works reliably yet (you
> still need the emulation layer), and doesn't provide all the features
> that the OSS gives (here
>
Hi,
> is it just me or is the great green hope of ALSA dying out? from the
> maintainence of the ALSA packages in Debian it looks like people don't
> believe this project will ever live up to its promisses, and I keep
> hearing about how problmatic it is... DOES it have a future?
Well, ALSA is a
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 08:16, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > I had similar problems. ALSA does not support 4+ speakers, only 2. Use
> > kernel emu10k driver, it will work.
>
> is it just me or is the great green hope of ALSA dying out? from the
> maintainence of the ALSA packages in Debian it looks like p
Quoting Oleg Kobets, from the post of Sat, 16 Nov:
> I had similar problems. ALSA does not support 4+ speakers, only 2. Use
> kernel emu10k driver, it will work.
is it just me or is the great green hope of ALSA dying out? from the
maintainence of the ALSA packages in Debian it looks like people do
I had similar problems. ALSA does not support 4+ speakers, only 2. Use
kernel emu10k driver, it will work.
- Original Message -
From: "Barak Kaufman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "linux il" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:17 PM
Subject: ALSA Configuration
Hello list i
Well the issue is over :)
i switched to the OSS driver got the midi and the rear speakers working thatnk
you Hetz :) (again) :)))
On Saturday 16 November 2002 14:39, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Why do you need ALSO for SBLive 5.1?
>
> The truth is that the OSS driver in this specific card are MUCH bet
To ask the obvious questions:
1. Are the rear speakers connected to the computer?
2. If you have also MS-Windows on your computer, do those speakers work
when you play something under MS-Windows?
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Barak Kaufman wrote:
> Hello list i realise that the question i am going to a
Why do you need ALSO for SBLive 5.1?
The truth is that the OSS driver in this specific card are MUCH better then
ALSA (in terms of stability as well as multiplexing, supporting the digital
output etc)..
http://emu10k1.sf.net - make sure you read the docs and enable the stuff in
emu10k1.conf
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