ALSA [Was: Paris summit]

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 02:30 +0200, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jan Claeys">
> 
> > Op zo, 25-06-2006 te 14:14 -0400, schreef Lee Revell:
> > > Do you expect Pulse to be the default sound system in Edgy?
> > 
> > Polypaudio/PulseAudio was already proposed as the default sound system for
> > Hoary IIRC...  ;-)
> 
> A much older version of polypaudio was tried, but it was not ready for broad
> usage. Since then, Lennart has worked on Avahi, and recently come back to
> the newly renamed "Pulse". His latest 0.9.x releases have been very solid.

I read on one of the links I posted previously that the OSS emulation
still does not support capture.  So I guess Skype won't be working well
on Linux anytime soon.

I've spoken with some Skype developers and they're working on an ALSA
port, so there is hope...

Lee