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On Sunday 06 November 2005 16:30, Duncan wrote: |
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> Hemmann, Volker Armin posted |
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> <200511060449.41167.volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>, excerpted |
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> > no, but since a recent version came out, you do not need to setup up |
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> > dmix. It should just work out of the box. |
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> Well... except with stuff that insists on using exclusive mode access. |
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> arts is one such "stuff", one of the big reasons folks have such |
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> difficulty with it. Use it, and everything else has to play thru arts, or |
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> not play at all, when arts is active, even with hardware mixing or dmix. |
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> At least, that's been my experience, and the arts kcontrol applet |
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> (kcmshell arts, or just find it in kcontrol) specifically mentions it DOES |
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> use exclusive mode, and that other things won't be able to use sound when |
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> it's active. |
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> Other sound daemons may or may not be equally "selfish". |
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I solved this by using no sound daemons at all. They are all evil. |
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I can't say I lost anything I miss. |
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But even If you have to setup dmix, there are a lot of nice easy howtos and |
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guides about it. |
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