At Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:23:21 +0100,
David Corking wrote:
> 
> (2)
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> What benefits are there from maintaining ALSA or PulseAudio support in
> the VM?   As far as I know they are specific to Linux(*), while OSS
> (Open Sound System) works on most Unix except Mac OS X.
> 
> Which sound interface does the OLPC XO (and Sugar) need?

  On XO, ALSA is the preferred driver.  Even there is some support
code in to switch the audio input port on XO to direct sensor input
mode.

-- Yoshiki