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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:39:14
Message-Id: hffjg4$82m$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time by Yoav Luft
1 You *might* want to look into OSS4 if your card is supported by it :P
2 It will require a rebuild of many packages though ("oss -alsa" in
3 make.conf) and it requires using non-portage packages from an overlay
4 and rebuilding your kernel with sound support completely disabled.
5
6 For what it's worth, that's what I use for a quite some time now.
7
8 On 12/05/2009 11:36 PM, Yoav Luft wrote:
9 > alsasound is on boot runlevel, so it's running. Still, some apps, like
10 > flash movies in firefox, don't behave nicely.
11 >
12 > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
13 >> You didn't mention whether you tried running the alsasound service in order
14 >> to get dmix. If enabled, it doesn't matter what sound device the apps want
15 >> to open.

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