From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EYnzI-00035H-Pe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:07:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA6H4X0Y014570; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 17:04:33 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA6H4WFm028355 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 17:04:33 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so229548wxd for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:04:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=OeaFXQvSKKaQABKc9g6GblQRBg605BC1CAiRoc05n4HxXNB+0kTX3S6x3eoTSEI6nOHEzosIlXbaMpwXIKrnVQ8z1ox6lVQjvq6V37BAMg9cnYK8scXPCKCajnX8Q6DZrJs30HtV1xkT5e5ApHl2gvkAnqjFRJ0S78/bhTciWqI= Received: by 10.70.24.6 with SMTP id 6mr4057370wxx; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:04:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.15.10.18? ( [206.116.1.46]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h11sm484038wxd.2005.11.06.09.04.28; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:04:31 -0800 (PST) From: Karol Krizka Organization: Krizka Family To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: alsa mixer question Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 09:04:23 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.92 References: <200511051814.jA5IEQ007199@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> <200511060449.41167.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8853594.mxtvO0bEAv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511060904.26842.kkrizka@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 18388fe5-16f2-4c60-98d1-2b8fb460cf0f X-Archives-Hash: 7804cdca4bbed6d3dcf9b3bc4b942e25 --nextPart8853594.mxtvO0bEAv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 06 November 2005 07:30, Duncan wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin posted > <200511060449.41167.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>, excerpted > > below, on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 04:49:41 +0100: > > On Saturday 05 November 2005 19:14, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: > >> As people said your choices are > >> > >> 1) Use sound card with hardware mixing > >> 2) Run sound mixing daemon like esound or arts > >> 3) Set up dmix in alsa. I also heard that alsa 1.10 is supposed to > >> come with replacement for dmix ? > > > > no, but since a recent version came out, you do not need to setup up > > dmix. It should just work out of the box. > > Well... except with stuff that insists on using exclusive mode access. > arts is one such "stuff", one of the big reasons folks have such > difficulty with it. Use it, and everything else has to play thru arts, or > not play at all, when arts is active, even with hardware mixing or dmix. > I agree with you. Arts sucks and I can't wait when they get rid of it in=20 KDE4 :) I once managed to get it to play nice with dmix, but then I switche= d=20 to GNOME and now back in kde and can't get it working. I don't want to get= =20 rid of it since it's quite a lot of work getting all kde things working wit= h=20 alsa without arts and not worth the trouble. There is one useful aspect of= =20 arts that makes it not 100% bad, you can suspend it. When I go play a game= =20 that needs acess to /dev/dsp I just open the Arts Control Tool from the men= u,=20 click status and suspend it. Also it suspends automaticly every 60 seconds= =20 (configurable in kcontrol) or it might be possible to make a script for=20 launching the game that suspends arts then launches. This is way less worki= ng=20 than going opening cmd line, typing killall artsd then after game ends=20 starting it again. > At least, that's been my experience, and the arts kcontrol applet > (kcmshell arts, or just find it in kcontrol) specifically mentions it DOES > use exclusive mode, and that other things won't be able to use sound when > it's active. > > Other sound daemons may or may not be equally "selfish". > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html =2D-=20 Karol Krizka --nextPart8853594.mxtvO0bEAv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDbjea2SHFyVbBp3oRAqh0AKCYRwqxEeeS8avGcoV/ctYO0eVUiQCdFYNU 6eaIsXBeA8eIG9NDYOiasX8= =5xu7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8853594.mxtvO0bEAv-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list