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Mangled ALSA dynamic loading...static loading will still work if you have the right libraries, but this is expected to break in general cases as we start dealing with different symbol versions, etc (but may work with, say, distro-specific packages, etc).
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:45:11 +0000
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