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lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

alsa or oss

I read that OSS is free now...
I remember years ago when I had much less problems with oss drivers as with alsa. I have a problem with microphone (loudness) which works on my wife computer with windows correct. Should be better sound and less problems if I install OSS drivers?

Thanks in advance.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: alsa or oss

Try (oss-linux in AUR) and compare.

In my case (M-Audio Revolution 5.1, envy24ht driver) OSS enabled me to use my headphone jack on the soundcard and provided a nice per app volume mixer, lacked some of dmix annoyances too. On the other hand, sound didn't want to work in Skype.

Acid7711

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-08-18

Posts: 300

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Re: alsa or oss

Alsa+1

1311219

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-01-09

Posts: 121

Re: alsa or oss

Alsa+1

I would give alsa my vote to.

lumiwa, could you describe your problem, is the sound to much/not enough? or is it some other problem (I'm not sure what you meant with loudness )?

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: alsa or oss

Alsa+1

I would give alsa my vote to.

lumiwa, could you describe your problem, is the sound to much/not enough? or is it some other problem (I'm not sure what you meant with loudness )?

Microphone doesn't works correct: sound is to low and when I talk on Skype a person on the other side hear me very bad. It works before but about two weeks is not usable. I did try microphone on my wifes computer with Windows and there are no problem. I tried everything with alsamixer and with KMix but results is the same. I tried on the Debian system today on the friend computer and works good too and he has the same options on alsamixer and KMix which I tried.