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On 06/12/2009 08:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Freitag 12 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 06/12/2009 07:58 PM, Beso wrote: |
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>>> finally, 4.3 will mark the removal of my old 3.5 installation. i think |
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>>> that for about 90% of people will be finally able to switch entirely to |
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>>> kde4. The apps are now mostly complete and the 3.5 apps that are still |
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>>> maintained have now been ported; plasma is ok and quite customizable, |
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>>> the backends are working well, with the exception of pulseaudio that is |
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>>> now having some problems with the phonon backend when used in conjuction |
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>>> with flash and old apps that lock directly the physical card, but i |
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>>> suspect that this is due to some configuration issue. |
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>> If you don't need networked sound, you can uninstall pulseaudio and alsa |
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>> and use oss4 (there's an ebuild). I did that and old programs who want |
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>> exclusive access to /dev/dsp work OK without locking the sound. KDE 4 |
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>> works fine with using Xine backend. This will need putting "-alsa oss" |
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>> in make.conf though and a rebuild of all packages that use those flags. |
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> hm, I never met an app that blocked /dev/dsp cpmpletly in the last couple of |
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> years, could you name an example? |
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Everything, without even a single exception. I then switched to aRts |
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and ESD on top of ALSA for a couple of years. Before a year or so I |
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switched to OSS4 after it got GPLed since I prefer having just one audio |
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system instead of 3. |
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