Re: Tools

[Pierre Phaneuf <pp@ludusdesign.com>]

Christian Reiniger wrote:

> > Audio is less of a problem.  OSS is fine for *simple*
> > audio - the sound on my copy of Heretic-2 sounds fine
> > to me.  However, Linux drivers certainly aren't taking
> > advantage of all the bells and whistles of some of the
> > more exotic sound cards.
> 
> I heard the ALSA drivers are scheduled to be included in kernel 2.5 - and
> these things support most of the bells and whistles.

*Cool*! They don't support 3D audio yet, but they are much better
designed than the OSS ones (which are very monolithic) and hence have a
much better improvability...

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Pierre Phaneuf
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