Re: does alsa directly supported by gnome-mixer?

after installed alsa-lib and rebuilt gst-plugins-base, the
mixer-applet now uses alsa mixer,
and it behave better than with oss mixer,  i get real control of the volume .
i thought it is necessary that oss is, i was wrong.

thanks.


On 5/26/06, Ronald S. Bultje <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 16:37 +0800, f.l. wrote:
> > seems oss emulation is required .
>
> If alsa is available, it is used. OSS support is probed for, which is
> why you will get a message that 'this or that app uses obsolete OSS
> interface' in your kenrel log (that's probably what made you send this
> email). However, alsa is preferred over oss if available.
>
> HTH,
> Ronald
>
>