Antonino Sabetta schreef: > Andreas Karlsson wrote: > >> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 17.45, Antonino Sabetta wrote: >> >>> Andreas, >>> I do not see the relation between dumping Artsd and the -alsa switch. >>> Since >>> I'm having big troubles trying to make things work with >>> alsa+dmix+arts, can >>> you explain how do you intend to configure your sound system? >>> Thanks, >>> Antonino >> >> >> >> Yeah, now I think I was smoking crack or something. What I meant was >> ofcourse dumping arts alltogether, not alsa. *mumble* > > > My question is still valid :) > How are you going to mix sounds without arts? Are you going to use some > other > sound daemon? Or dmix? > Thank you, > Antonino
I can't speak for Andreas, of course, but for myself it's not an issue because 1) I don't generally need to mix sounds (I'm not one to watch a movie in mPlayer with kopete or whatever running in the background); 2) I don't generally use system sounds anyway because my PC is next to my boyfriend's. He uses speakers and I use headphones to keep the sound pollution in our computer room to a minimum. I usually don't bother to wear the 'phones unless I specifically need them for a game, movie, or music, so there's not much point in enabling system or application sounds; 3) I invested some 30 Euros in a soundcard that does hardware mixing (could have spent less, actually, but I liked this card and I really didn't want a Soundblaster Live! variant). Vast improvement over my onboard sound chip. So I would answer that you might consider eliminating the need for sound mixing, or investing in hardware that actually supports features you want to use. Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
