Re: microphone and sound access in Ada

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Adrian Knoth wrote:
> 
> Same problem under Windows where the ASIO-drivers cannot be used in
> conjunction with the Windows-MultimediaExtensions (MME).
> 
> I feel not well about arts and esd. They are only necessary for
> non-ALSA-platforms where the underlaying sound-architecture, i.e. OSS,
> is blocking, so they cannot play their error-wavs while xmms is
> running :)

Don't like esd or arts either.

> Have a look at:
> http://www.op.net/~pbd/alsa-audio.html  (ALSA Devel-FAQ)
> 
> and especially at the last paragraph.

I see. I also see that Debian has it in unstable. I think jackit is
probably a better way to go. have you checked if it does input as well
as output?

Preben