[Alsa-user] shittiness

[Steve C. <ste...@li...>]

In the past I always kept away from sound on linux, because it sucked.

Somewhat reluctantly, I gave it another stab last month and enjoyed a =
brief blaze of funtionality during which time I was able to sequence a =
number of my compositions with Rosegarden. Then suddenly, my speakers =
blew and the sblive I'd been using kept making a screaming sound that =
offered to blow any more speakers I connected to it. I slapped in =
another sblive, but now nothing can be done to make it work. Suspecting =
the machine was damaged in some way, I cobbled together another test =
machine on which to test the card. Same results. Alsamixer won't run and =
no sound. Card works fine on FreeBSD and under windows, so it's not a =
hardware issue. The new card must differ from the old in some way not =
well accomodated by alsa.

I've been screwing around with this alsa crap for weeks now with no =
resolution in sight, and no helpful advice from this mailing list =
regarding my earlier posting.

I'm a sysadmin used to working with the details of network services, so =
I'm not exactly hopeless at this sort of stuff. But I just keep getting =
dragged deeper into the squalid intricacies of linux and alsa with no =
return of satisfaction.

While linux can do many things well, sound isn't one of them. With a =
copy of Cakewalk going $129, I can't really justify wasting anymore of =
my time on this very shitty software arrangement.=20

Alsa is no good. It's rickety and unreliable. No serious musician would =
waste their time with this bullshit.