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On Sunday 29 November 2009 16:32:47 Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> When I was first messing around with Linux, I think I was using |
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> Mandrake (back when it was called Mandrake) and this issue crept up on |
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> me. Back then, if I understand correctly, it was accepted behaviour |
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> for hardware to be accessible by one program at a time. There was a |
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> fix back then that involved running some sort of daemon, but its been |
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> a while since I messed with KDE or Mandrake. |
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That was a long time ago :-) |
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alsa was very limited at the time and mixing had to be done in software. Which |
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spawned a rash of sound daemons that arts. |
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Thankfully, those days are long gone. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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