Re: Red Hat 9 - OSS High Pitched Sound on PCG-V505BX

John Andersen <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:51:07 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Organization NORCOM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:47 am, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote:
> John Andersen wrote:
> > What about alsa?
>
> I have not tested alsa yet. Is alsa part of redhat 9 or does it have to
> be installed / compiled?
>
> jcsitte

Don't know, I'm a SuSE user and have not had this problem.

SuSE uses oss, and pipes all kde sounds thru artsd to multitask
the sound card.  With that combination I have never needed alsa
and, quite frankly, never found it any better than oss on any
machine I've tried it on.


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