From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S2QmP-0005mq-JM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:24:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A639AE08F9; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADF86E08A8 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2012 17:22:46 -0000 Received: from wl-l3-93.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (EHLO localhost) [141.24.17.93] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 28 Feb 2012 18:22:46 +0100 X-Authenticated: #4040096 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18jRXwM/Ygj2YZMrgW/aVLDrjndhcB7YLTHDZsCeM yZYvJG1aVgBYXQ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:22:46 +0100 From: Frank Steinmetzger To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system? Message-ID: <20120228172246.GA9738@eisen.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20120227135021.025a9e41@mini> <20120228023024.GB8673@eisen.lan> <20120228090615.GA3719@ksp.sk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120228090615.GA3719@ksp.sk> User-Agent: Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15, Gentoo 1.5.21-r1) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: a9dcec2e-b150-4854-b16f-9dda697f4ec0 X-Archives-Hash: 59c27c29453ce2481945c952f930cc0b --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:06:16AM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: > > This seems like a dumb question (for I was a strict PA denier until rec= ently > > and have been using alsa-only since always), but does PA handle OSS > > applications better than alsa/dmix? Whenever I want to use sidplay, whi= ch only > > speaks OSS, I need to stop all other audio programs (e.g. press Stop in= the > > Clementine player if it's only paused), or else /dev/dsp was busy. >=20 > PA doesn't care about oss (/dev/dsp). It opens the soundcard through > normal alsa interface (which means /dev/dsp becomes busy). You can > either kill pulseaudio, or tell pulseaudio to suspend the correspondig > sink (not sure what exactly happens if an audio stream through PA is acti= ve > etc..). I'm not using PA, I only said I denied it completety until recently. ;-) (I just noticed it was running though, because I installed Gnome 3 a short while ago to sneak a peak). > Regarading oss (/dev/dsp) and plain alsa, it is the same, if something > opens the soundcard through alsa, /dev/dsp becomes busy... (even when > using dmix in alsa, because /dev/dsp is handled by a kernel modules, > dmix is userspace). Thanks for clearing that up. > There is however a way to amke oss work with dmix through aoss > [...] > Then you can run (even multiple) 'aoss mpg123 file.mp3 ...' Hooray for the combined knowledge of mailing lists. That makes me happy as = to my question. --=20 Gru=C3=9F | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. Computer publishers produce computer books that explain what you didn=E2=80=99t understand in computer magazines. --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9NDWUACgkQGafpl66MV0zS0gCfTJ0MAhDWA4BkXRGaFUrDcWd8 RbkAnRDwbJzHJl/bRBqJkxrCaKc/1k8k =BJ7w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--