Re: (#492) Re: speak-freely with alsa & esd sound server

What card do you have?

I've been using an SBAWE and similar cards for years with Speak Freely and 
ALSA for years, and it's a real winner.

Clearly, Get this layer working first, then move on to ESD if you need it. 
I've had good success with the mixer and other tools supplied with the
Linux distros I've used (Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, etc.)....

		Regards,
		---> RGB <---

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:39:03 +0200, Attila Konietzka <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:50:03AM +0200, Speak Freely Forum wrote:
>>Are you thinking of SF talking communicating via an alsa emulation layer to
>>esd, which will process it and call the alsa libraries itself?
>>I would think it a better thing to get alsa to do the right thing in the first
>>place. I'm pretty sure the extra layer would incur greater delays, and if ESD
>>can do what you want, then it must be possible to do it without ESD.
>>One possibility would be just to add a gain in software to the values read in
>>by the alsa routines. Do you know if ESD is just enabling a feature in the
>>card, or amplifying in software after capturing?
>>Depending on the quality of the soundcard, you may get better results from the
>>hardware preamp.

>Well, from what i heard this sound daemon does the amplification after
>catching the aduio from alsa, at least it can be configured this way. Well
>the hardware-preamp is really jsut the last solution, cause why i have a
>feature in the sound-driver that can not be used?
>but that's an alsa thing, because as i already said, oss doesn't provide mic
>support at all for my card.
>But unfortunately neither from the alsa-user nor the alsa-devel list came
>any response to my request, so i think a lot of work needs to be done to
>yupport my driver properly.
>Thanks and Regards, Attila.


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