ALSA [Was: Paris summit]

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 02:41 +0200, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> So, dmix will improve, but right now it has plenty of stability and
> hardware support issues. But those are on top of serious design
> problems that many regard as inappropriate.  It mashes too many
> magical tricks into a library (and interface) that is not designed for
> this purpose - compare and contrast with the very explicit and direct
> approach of using a sound daemon such as Pulse. dmix is also stuck
> behind the ALSA API. ;-) 

I've just read:

http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/FAQ.html

and

http://lwn.net/Articles/185613/

Looks interesting.  What backend does it use by default - OSS or ALSA?

Lee