[SDL] ALSA/OSS linux audio driver priorities

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Gerry JJ a écrit :
> Hey,
>
> I recently found out that SDL prefers using OSS audio over ALSA audio
> in Linux.  This is a bit of a problem on systems using ALSA's software
> mixing (dmix), because ALSA's OSS emulation doesn't do any
> software-mixing at all unless the OSS-using program is run through
> aoss, which results either in no sound or blocking other apps
> (including ALSA ones) from using sound while the OSS emulation is in
> use.  (Anyone know if there's a reason ALSA can't do a proper mixing OSS
> driver btw?  Why is the aoss hack required?).  I've also noticed that
> OSS emulation can have lower audio quality than pure ALSA.
>
> So, I'm wondering if there's any reason why SDL prefers OSS over ALSA
> in Linux, and if not, if the priorities could be switched?  (I know that
> the SDL_AUDIODRIVER envvar can be used to override priorities, but it'd
> be nice if things just worked in stead of having to resort to that).
>
> - Gerry
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This is wrong.
You can downloads the last version : SDL-1.2.12.tar.gz.
Uncompress it :
$tar -zxvf SDL-1.2.12.tar.gz
Go to the new folder :
$cd SDL-1.2.12
and try :
$./configure --help
You can see the line :
--enable-alsa support the ALSA audio API [default=yes]
So no problem with SDL and ALSA.
Maybe you have a bad package and you must build yourself.
Good luck.