Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman
>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews
>>> <matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something
>>>> else out there that can handle multiple audio streams?
>>>
>>> alsa dmix
>>>
>>
>> Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's
>> how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default.
>
> Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so.
>

Yeah, when you wrote dmix the light turned on about how KDE (and I
suspect most desktop managers) is likely doing it.

- Mark