1Sun Jun 25 2006
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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
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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
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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
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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