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From: "Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)" <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Removing pulseaudio
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:14:40
Message-Id: kl29tk$q6k$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Removing pulseaudio by Kevin Chadwick
1 On 2013-04-21, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >> >
3 >> > Just throwing out there that users can or atleast could use alsa
4 >> > plugs to have multiple applications. I did that before pulseaudio
5 >> > came along to play nfs carbon under cedega and listen to music.
6 >>
7 >> It should be noted that ALSA users can have multiple applications by
8 >> doing absolutely nothing other than using ALSA and using the
9 >> applications they want to use.
10 >
11 > So are you saying plugs are no longer required or that they are only
12 > needed for certain apps that take over the audio device.
13
14 I don't even know exactly what ALSA plugs are, and ALSA has worked
15 perfectly for all these years, so yeah, whatever an ALSA plug is, either
16 it is not required anymore, or it is handled automagically by ALSA.
17
18 --
19 Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
20 http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/

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Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Removing pulseaudio Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>