[ltp] I must rerun alsaconf before using xmms.

Eben King linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:09:04 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Eben King wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Francois Maltey wrote:
> 
> > 1/ I chose plugin ALSA - libALSA.so in xmms by typing [Ctrl V].
> > not ess, not esound driver.
> > 
> > 2/ I discard the sound server in gnome : /preference/sound.
> > 
> > I run alsactl store.
> > 
> > What is the better sound driver : ess, alsa or essound ?
> > I don't change any boot program.
> 
> ALSA, since it runs in kernel space and the others run in user space.

To clarify, I think that's better because kernel-space things generally have 
lower latency than user-space things.

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