Am Samstag, den 13.10.2007, 00:23 +0100 schrieb Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro: > But I would be interested to know why PA hogs the sound device. No > one explained this yet, and is the #1 question in my mind. As far as I > can tell, though I admit I'm no expert and could be wrong, PA should be > able to access the sound device without locking it, like any normal > application. To put it simply, PA over ALSA/dmix. If dmix was > underneath PA, couldn't you still keep doing all those neat things > anyway? The way I see it, only applications using ALSA directly don't > benefit from PA's features, but at least it would work.
Yes, it is indeed possible. This is exactly how I set up own system, incidentally for the same reason: running 32-bit apps on amd64. Although hopefully 32-bit packages of libpulse and alsa-plugins will arrive in Ubuntu soon. (Perhaps I should have a go at it if I find the time.) Of course dmix adds yet another layer of latency but the most important thing to me for now is that it works. By the way, Lennart: I think PulseAudio kicks ass. With all the bad experiences with ESD we had to endure for years, it is just hard to believe that a user-space piece of software is actually able to deliver audio smoothly, without cracks and pops andwhatnot. But deliver it does. Cheers, --Daniel _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
