Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

As I understand it, esd is a userspace server, it still requires kernel
drivers to use hardware (ie. it relies on alsa or oss for output), where
as alsa is mainly kernel based (I think there may be a few libraries as
well to extend the kernel part), so does not depend on another audio
system.

I haven't looked at the configurations for esd, but alsa looks very
powerful. As it is kernel and hardware based, it allows all sorts of
configurations of devices (as I said, I think you can split a 5.1 card
into more than one linux device so that it behaves like multiple stereo
cardes, or multiple cards can be linked together into one linux device).
I can't imagine a userspace server offering such hardware control.

As for what is being preferred for gnome, I don't know, but I would vote
for alsa.

From
Michael Whapples
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 17:48 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> All right!  Glad to hear this.  It was a fun hack to try.
>
> Now, for ALSA vs. ESD vs. whatever.  I don't know.  I'm trying to read
> up on them to get a better understanding of things.  Does anyone have an
> idea where GNOME is headed with this?  I still see signs of ESD in
> various places.
>
> Will
>
> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 22:41 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have just tried something similar to what Will suggested with the
> > gnome-speech bonobo activation file. The difference is that instead of
> > using esddsp, I used aoss, so the string in the quote marks after the
> > location= is 
> > "/usr/bin/aoss /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver"
> > and now I am happily using espeak with alsa with the gnome-speech
> > driver.
> >
> > As another note, I tried to use another app through aoss, and the two
> > worked together with no problem, speech and sound. That's me happy. Has
> > anyone else tried this, and how does it work for you?
> >
> > I would guess as this works, esddsp should work as well, but I decided
> > against it as it is another server layer which may stop running
> > (potentially).
> >
> > From
> > Michael Whapples
> >
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