ALSA implementation

[Aaron Slunt]

Jan Zerebecki wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 05:26:12PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
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>> I am an ALSA developer, and at one point tried to fix the wine alsa 
>> support. I found the wine source code very difficult to read and 
>> understand. Windows seems to have so many different sound APIs, I did 
>> not really know where to start.
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> Everything in wine that uses alsa is below dlls/winmm/winealsa/.
> I explained in a different mail to this thread what bugs are in
> winealsa. (Archive link to that mail is:
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-September/050826.html )
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>> I suspect that either wine will have to change a lot, or ALSA will have 
>> to change a lot before they work nicely together.
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> As explained in the mail refrenced above the main problem is that
> in wine the alsa callback signal (that we currently use) won't
> work properly without special care, but the fd based method (for
> example with select) should work as expected. We just need
> someone to code this change.
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> It seems I just found out how to fix the other winealsa problem I
> mentioned in that mail, I'm currently testing if it works.
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> Jan
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Jan, could you please clarify what you mean by an fd-based method? Thanks.