1Sun Jun 25 2006 2--------------- 3 4the default driver is now the ALSA driver. see README.OSS for 5information on using the OSS driver instead. 6 7Wed Apr 30 2003 8--------------- 9 10Support for ALSA 0.9 is functional and could do with widespread testing. 11 12To build with alsa support, simply configure with: 13 14 ./configure --enable-alsa 15 16Note that this will build a binary which will work with ALSA only, and 17not attempt to use OSS. In future this will be replaced with plugins 18for different pcm i/o methods, which should ease binary distribution. 19 20Wed Sep 11 2002 21--------------- 22 23ALSA native support it currently not working; to even attempt to build the 24code, you must configure with: 25 26 ./configure --enable-experimental --enable-alsa 27 28However, Sweep works fine with ALSA under OSS emulation. 29 30Sat Oct 7 2000 31--------------- 32 33Support for ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) version 0.6.0 was 34added by Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@op.net>. 35 36To build sweep with support for ALSA 0.6.0, do: 37 38 ./configure --enable-alsa 39 make 40 41Paul writes: 42 43 To use ALSA, you need --enable-alsa as an arg to configure, 44 because just discovering ALSA is not deemed to be sufficient to use 45 it (at this time). 46 47 A couple of things to note: 48 49 * this is ALSA 0.6.0, which is only available via CVS right now 50 * this code is totally different than the code needed for 0.5.X 51 * you also need a ~/.asoundrc file to define the 52 characteristics of various "named PCM devices" 53 * you can define the environment variable SWEEP_ALSA_PCM to 54 the name of the PCM device you want sweep to use 55 * if its not defined, sweep will try to open a named PCM 56 device called "sweep" 57