On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 23:55 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > is a sound server such as esd or pulseaudio still needed at all? As far > as I understand, ALSA allows access from multiple applications. It > supports hardware mixing and provides dmix as a fallback on systems > where hardware mixing is not available. For the casual user, this should > be sufficient. Or is it not?
IIRC dmix doesn't really work well with fast-user-switching. OTOH, Pulse works just fine with that. David _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list