[Openal-devel] Default alsa sound device

[Sven Panne]

FYI: "default" is now the default ALSA device. SuSE shipped it like this
via a patch, so this seems to be a real improvement.

Cheers,
   S.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:openal-devel-bounces at opensource.creative.com] On 
> Behalf Of Matthew A. Nicholson
> Sent: Freitag, 5. Mai 2006 16:54
> To: openal-devel at opensource.creative.com
> Subject: [Openal-devel] Default alsa sound device
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I have some questions about OpenAL and alsa.  I notice that 
> the default openal alsa sound device is plughw:0,0, this 
> causes an openal thread to deadlock on my system if another 
> device is using the sound hardware. 
> Changing the default sound device to "default" fixes this and 
> even makes it work with dmix.  Why is the default sound 
> device still plughw:0,0 and not default.  From my limited 
> understanding of the situation, I believe that plughw:0,0 
> used to be the old way to do things.
> 
> Also, why is oss still the default for the linux backend.  
> Current versions of linux use alsa as the default sound 
> system.  Shouldn't current versions of openal do the same?
> --
> Matthew A. Nicholson
> matt-land.com
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