Re: why oh why...

[Daniel Hill]

> And finally with the last few versions of Ubuntu there is a push for
> pulseaudio which I think is utter rubbish.  It seems to me the real
> problem lies in ALSA's inability to work with more then one source.  There
> are some workarounds that disable ALSA from locking the card to one app.
>   
I remember ALSA brought out a patch that allow software mixing for
hardware that didn't support it by default, I can't seem to reproduce it
though, but my .asoundrc file works quite well