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 1EYnnO-0005c8-LA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:55:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA6GqOjc010375; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:52:24 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA6GqNKo024635 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:52:23 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 34D762D16FA for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 17:52:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (hathor.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.1]) by amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACDCE2D0D83 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 17:52:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.8) with ESMTP id 8968762 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:52:22 +0100 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: alsa mixer question Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 17:52:21 +0100 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: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511061752.21767.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 628edf9c-fab5-4e00-b1c6-a28f24096031 X-Archives-Hash: 1d6f6c65e295421cb8e963c01831df72 On Sunday 06 November 2005 16:30, Duncan wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin posted > <200511060449.41167.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>, excerpted > > 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. > > 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". I solved this by using no sound daemons at all. They are all evil. I can't say I lost anything I miss. But even If you have to setup dmix, there are a lot of nice easy howtos and guides about it. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list