On 4/12/07, Vit Hrachovy vit.hrachovy@sandbox.cz wrote:
Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
There are 5 different audio drivers for linux, I think this is a bit overkill, so I propose to remove the esd and nas drivers, I don't think anyone uses esd, especially that since for that task alsa can be used now since dmix addon.
I'm not sure what nas is for, but it seems to be 'network audio system', I haven't seen any use for it, except that it causes a 30 seconds slowdown at showing 'audio' tab in winecfg. I don't think anyone uses it.
For esd I think it's best to remove, for nas I'm also for remove, but I'll settle for removing it from winecfg list same way as winearts was disabled for a while.
What are your thoughts about this?
Keep them all and fix the real problems.
Maarten
Hi Maarten, I'm using esd actively. There are some audiocard drivers OSS provide and ALSA don't.
I haven't used NAS at all and the winecfg delay annoys me too.
The slowdown can be reduced by probing for sound simultaneously in multiple threads, and eliminated entirely by populating it asynchronously from other threads. Want a patch?
Regards Vit
Regards Damjan