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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Am Montag 19 September 2011, 12:37:16 schrieb Michael Mol: |
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>> I recall reading about dmix in LinuxJournal years ago, but I don't |
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>> think I ever got around to setting it up; |
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> you don't set it up. It just works. If your sound card does not do hardware |
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> mixing (onboard sound doesn't) you are using dmix. |
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Ah. As I said, I hadn't poked or researched dmix since I read about it |
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in LinuxJournal. Pretty sure that particular issue came out over ten |
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years ago. |
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That doesn't quite jive with my experience with apps some apps |
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managing to take exclusive control over sound devices. In particular, |
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if, e.g. Flash were run under Firefox before WINE or PulseAudio, then |
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the latter two didn't get to play.* |
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* Yes, I know (and have used) the solutions to these kinds of problems |
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when using PA. That's beside the point. |
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:wq |
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