> Why with ALSA everything works great?
>> You don't necessarily see the symptom, but that certainly doesn't imply that ALSA is bug-free in this context, either.
If there is no symptom, then it's a strong possibility that there is no disease also. One cannot postulate the existence of a bug in software X, simply on the basis of the fact that another software Y, unrelated to X, is afflicted with it - if one wants to be honest.
Response to Daniel T Chen:
> Why with ALSA everything works great?
>> You don't necessarily see the symptom, but that certainly doesn't imply that ALSA is bug-free in this context, either.
If there is no symptom, then it's a strong possibility that there is no disease also. One cannot postulate the existence of a bug in software X, simply on the basis of the fact that another software Y, unrelated to X, is afflicted with it - if one wants to be honest.