So, you are basically saying Linux developers are imbeciles that were not able to come up with a really simple impementation yet. Many promises were never fulfilled, further discouraged me. Some zealots would quite plainly lie about Linux, to make it appear better: there was this Linux dude from my home country who told me how RedHat 5. Yeah right. Today I just want Linux to own up to all the hype.
Not a desktop or multimedia OS, not something that could or should go mainstream. Linux has only recently been targeted at the whole media area. Unless you need the hardware MIDI support you might not, computers are fast enough to do real good software MIDI these days you should probably use that instead. Maybe for you. But a lot of people particularly the Linux users this article is aimed at! As for professional musicians, where do they come into the picture?
Did the article say anything about using Linux in pro-level audio? Did I say anything about using Linux in pro-level audio? I just said that ALSA was a technologically a very nice audio layer. Additional ranting deleted, because it contained not a single example or piece of supporting evidence…. A PnP OS will build a device tree in memory and load the necessary drivers, during bootup. In fact, Linux does this somewhat , too, but alas, not very well. Here Mr.
I was talking about the MIDI interface on the soundcard. Dear Linux ab users, to your concerted attacks I can only say: I was a Linux supporter once. Now I just wait and watch. Linux can do that…it is called modules….
I am with you on this Adam. I think it is getting there though. I remember when I changed out a network card on my app server and the OS recognized it on bootup and prompted me to configure it. In SuSE on of my programmers unplugged his mouse and then turned around and plugged in a USB Logitech trackball mouse and SuSE prompted him that new hardware was found and he was immediately back in business.
But I know it can get better. I have a bigger beef. All distros have sound configuration tools. It is the future right?
Still, I think the user should get a quick prompt alerting them that OSS kernel drivers and ALSA drivers are both present for their hardware and have the choice on which to choose or whether if they are a newbie to let the system choose. I say this because there are cases where the OSS drivers give you better sound. But that is just my opinion. To Mr. Hashem, there are precious few soundcards that are not supported by linux but they do exist. Install sound packages.
To configure alsa, you might have to run alsactl init as root. You can install too e. Try to run them as root it should work. This is the recommended way to allow a user to play audio. It suffices then to load the snd module in order to load the driver module for your specific hardware.
You can also try to detect and configure your sound card manually. If you have a PCI soundcard, do an 'lspci -v' to list all available pci devices. The list will most probably include a reference to a multimedia audio device: that is your SoundCard.
You could now have a look at the ALSA soundcard matrix to find out which driver name can be used for the chipset you found. There will be entries for the OSS modules which will give you clues about which chipsets your sound cards have. Don't forget to disable these entries before reconfiguring things to load ALSA modules.
If you see a message about "sound card not detected" and you are sure you have the right ALSA driver, the presence of an OSS module could be the reason.
Test Test the driver, using aplay, mplay or xmms for example To test midi, you can use aplaymidi. Sharing a card among multiple processes It is often desirable to be able to share a sound card among several processes running at the same time. This requires the ability to mix the sound outputs of those processes into a single stream. If your cheap sound card doesn't support hardware mixing try the dmix plugin.
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