[Tfug] ALSA not avilable on FreeBSD

[Predrag Punosevac]

Of course. This makes absolut sense.I think for me the way to go is JACK
since I am using Gnome.
I do not think ESD is available for FreeBSD but there are others free
standing audio servers
plus aRTs and JACK.

Thanks Jude this really helps.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude Nelson" <judecn at gmail.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 19:52
Subject: Re: [Tfug] ALSA not avilable on FreeBSD


> That's unfortunate; ALSA is a much more robust framework than OSS, IMHO.
> But then again, ALSA is very Linux-specific, I'm afraid :/
>
> One way to prevent applications from locking up your sound card would be
to
> have a sound server like ESD or aRTs or JACK.  That way, the server is the
> only program to talk to the sound hardware, and all other applications go
> through the server.  This allows for audio mixing, multi-channel output,
and
> in the case of ESD, sound networking as well.   I'm not sure how well each
> of these works with OSS, but it's definitely something to look into.
>
> On 8/5/07, Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jude,
> > I just checked. ALSA is not available for FreeBSD period.
> > OSS or native drivers is the only way to go. I have to check what they
are
> > cooking for upcoming 7.0 releise. I know that they will definitelly have
a
> > wider support for
> > audio cards.
> >
> >
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