Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] accessing native ALSA directly while pulseaudio is running

2010-10-13 Thread Christoph Groth
Luke Yelavich writes: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:09:42AM EST, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 22:47 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: >> > Now I wonder, is it possible to have some applications accessing >> > the native ALSA device while pulseaudio is running? >> >> Basically, no, the sou

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] accessing native ALSA directly while pulseaudio is running

2010-10-13 Thread Christoph Groth
Ng Oon-Ee writes: > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 22:47 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: >> >> Now I wonder, is it possible to have some applications accessing the >> native ALSA device while pulseaudio is running? > > Basically, no, the sound-card cannot be shared that way. Perhaps if > you use dmix, but a

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] accessing native ALSA directly while pulseaudio is running

2010-10-12 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:09:42AM EST, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 22:47 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Since a few weeks I'm running pulseaudio on my machines and it works > > nicely. I especially like the ability to send audio though the > > network. > > > > How

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] accessing native ALSA directly while pulseaudio is running

2010-10-12 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 22:47 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Hello, > > Since a few weeks I'm running pulseaudio on my machines and it works > nicely. I especially like the ability to send audio though the > network. > > However, I need to run a program (aeolus) which works with plain ALSA > but

[pulseaudio-discuss] accessing native ALSA directly while pulseaudio is running

2010-10-12 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello, Since a few weeks I'm running pulseaudio on my machines and it works nicely. I especially like the ability to send audio though the network. However, I need to run a program (aeolus) which works with plain ALSA but not with pulseaudio's ALSA emulation (It complains that "the playback inte