Name: Anonymous 2006-10-03 2:15
OSS, ALSA, ARTS, ESS (or is it ESD?), yada yada yada. Makes my head spin as to what's what and what I really need and what's deprecated or if I need all of them, etc....
Which one should I go with for maximum compatibility? Can I have all of them loaded without hardware conflicts? Some applications say they use OSS, some say they use ALSA, some say you need to run with artsdsp (the only way I've found to get Flash to use sound, although it's VERY laggy, like 1 and a half second sound lag, grr)....etc.
I don't even have an idea what my system is using now, and I consider myself pretty Linux savvy when it comes to most things... just not audio hardware.
For the record, most programs recognize sound. Doom 3, Quake 4, schism tracker, even a dinky little synthesizer I wrote in Common LISP one weekend. But Flash doesn't, so I figure I might have overlooked something in setting up my audio.
And.....hmm.....I hate the thought of abandoning Slackware, which is the distro I've used ever since it was in its 3.x days.... buuuuut anyone have any recommendations for other Linux distros that are built around higher hardware compatibility? I also have a Wacom tablet that X.org tends to misbehave with sometimes (works fine in GIMP, strangely enough, but anywhere else the cursor "skips" real fast when the stylus touches the pad)... so yeah.
Which one should I go with for maximum compatibility? Can I have all of them loaded without hardware conflicts? Some applications say they use OSS, some say they use ALSA, some say you need to run with artsdsp (the only way I've found to get Flash to use sound, although it's VERY laggy, like 1 and a half second sound lag, grr)....etc.
I don't even have an idea what my system is using now, and I consider myself pretty Linux savvy when it comes to most things... just not audio hardware.
For the record, most programs recognize sound. Doom 3, Quake 4, schism tracker, even a dinky little synthesizer I wrote in Common LISP one weekend. But Flash doesn't, so I figure I might have overlooked something in setting up my audio.
And.....hmm.....I hate the thought of abandoning Slackware, which is the distro I've used ever since it was in its 3.x days.... buuuuut anyone have any recommendations for other Linux distros that are built around higher hardware compatibility? I also have a Wacom tablet that X.org tends to misbehave with sometimes (works fine in GIMP, strangely enough, but anywhere else the cursor "skips" real fast when the stylus touches the pad)... so yeah.