pulseaudio is the standard for the rpm world as well. <br><br>esound was a really cool idea (use network concepts to pump sound bits anywhere AND multiple inputs for single outputs OR multi-in for multi-out) but it was no longer support by the upstream author(s).<br>
<br>pulseaudio is a sound data transport mechanism.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu December 18 2008, Marc Ferguson wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> OK, I can do that. In the mean time. What is the situation with audio in<br>
> Linux? Is PulseAudio the wave of the future... the standard? What's ALSA<br>
> and some of the other options I see in my Sound Settings? Either way,<br>
> sounds seems to be very single-threaded and I' confused by that! Thanks.<br>
<br>
</div>I think pulseaudio replaced Alsa for Ubuntu.. I'm runnung Debian Lenny and<br>
still running alsa, so I have no clue how to configue pulseaudio.. my laptop<br>
may have it, but I never listen to music on my laptop.. it's FOR WORK :)<br>
<br>
see:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio</a><br>
It's a drop in replacement for EsounD. PulseAudio is the standard sound server<br>
in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.<br>
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