Hi there,

My name is Marc and I'm writing a tracker software originally geared towards gameconsole (first GP32 but now GP2X, PC, Mac) and since I got this lovely eee, I'm planning on porting it to debian-derived platforms. Actually it works already but the SDL version I have uses oss and it seems to hickup sometimes although the cpu power consumption seems fine.

Other programs (vlc/audacity) seems no to reflect this problem so I guess it's due to the fact they use ALSA while the SDL I got doesn't.

When configuring SDL, it seems not to include ALSA (by not finding alsa/soundlib.h) and I'd like to add it but I'm a little confused on the step to follow. ALSA seems to be installed but I guess I miss the includes and compiling libs. Does it mean I need to configure/compile alsa-lib ? Do I risk corrupting my system if the installed libraries are not compatible ?

Sorry for the rambling, but I'm only a beginner in terms of developping audio apps under linux.

Regards, Marc.