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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:06:16AM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: |
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> > This seems like a dumb question (for I was a strict PA denier until recently |
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> > and have been using alsa-only since always), but does PA handle OSS |
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> > applications better than alsa/dmix? Whenever I want to use sidplay, which only |
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> > speaks OSS, I need to stop all other audio programs (e.g. press Stop in the |
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> > Clementine player if it's only paused), or else /dev/dsp was busy. |
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> PA doesn't care about oss (/dev/dsp). It opens the soundcard through |
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> normal alsa interface (which means /dev/dsp becomes busy). You can |
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> either kill pulseaudio, or tell pulseaudio to suspend the correspondig |
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> sink (not sure what exactly happens if an audio stream through PA is active |
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> etc..). |
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I'm not using PA, I only said I denied it completety until recently. ;-) |
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(I just noticed it was running though, because I installed Gnome 3 a short |
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while ago to sneak a peak). |
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> Regarading oss (/dev/dsp) and plain alsa, it is the same, if something |
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> opens the soundcard through alsa, /dev/dsp becomes busy... (even when |
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> using dmix in alsa, because /dev/dsp is handled by a kernel modules, |
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> dmix is userspace). |
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Thanks for clearing that up. |
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> There is however a way to amke oss work with dmix through aoss |
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> Then you can run (even multiple) 'aoss mpg123 file.mp3 ...' |
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Hooray for the combined knowledge of mailing lists. That makes me happy as to |
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my question. |
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what you didn’t understand in computer magazines. |
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