debian: what sound drivers ?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Sun Jan 18 03:43:23 UTC 2004


On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:04:48PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> What sound drivers does Debian use ? OSS ?

Debian gives you choice of ALSA and OSS.  Debian doesn't tell you what
to do.  Hence why it ships with half a dozen mail servers. :)

Use ALSA whenever possible.  Seems more cpu efficient, has more
features, more complete support, and better maintained.

Lennart Sorensen
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