On Sunday 29 November 2009 16:32:47 Dan Cowsill wrote: > When I was first messing around with Linux, I think I was using > Mandrake (back when it was called Mandrake) and this issue crept up on > me. Back then, if I understand correctly, it was accepted behaviour > for hardware to be accessible by one program at a time. There was a > fix back then that involved running some sort of daemon, but its been > a while since I messed with KDE or Mandrake. >
That was a long time ago :-) alsa was very limited at the time and mixing had to be done in software. Which spawned a rash of sound daemons that arts. Thankfully, those days are long gone. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
