From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28D21381F3 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4FAFE0C45; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm9-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm9-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.197]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97E24E0BF9 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.237] by nm9.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Apr 2013 19:17:28 -0000 Received: from [217.146.188.235] by tm18.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Apr 2013 19:17:28 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp108.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Apr 2013 19:17:28 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.co.uk; s=s1024; t=1366917448; bh=VHw0GM4q5n9l9E22+TKcEpE76OfS+v9n7AGQX5ssODo=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:Message-ID:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=CfHxy4uCd98ABwHByoQE1FQcFReCmC9NFztYRaykURQ7saKTgSVKJJ+eTpNnIItGFDEG8aUjW5LW7a4NGJeeHc8ExTObFkNKW0HRI61PUptEN551z4mKYg0lOJpUjqfy10D8KVCKo1g5XKX9fNwbEk6ZLBmmwaoSIJ5Zj/pOMYE= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 850193.34365.bm@smtp108.mail.ird.yahoo.com Message-ID: <850193.34365.bm@smtp108.mail.ird.yahoo.com> X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: tP0uvgwVM1l91D12CADcxe7ZWDgr4OiJjor7ipB3klNjwa2 JJtuulMjPIeM0kH.UtG2LYF7vv7kCUffxNCqARQeFCAy3ok338X1G5v05vG. k6W5Hk5R5MyQfgn9.QAN8806Qt8gl0kfeXPIbenZ8QeUyWVRem2CEAW7Axq3 LQ1kclByEC.w08ymQgF_jEAip4slY_xRFe1SdVLI90Y.uXor77dkEx8QsUEn 7QikJim3n_Z51yxVWC_9XbIxjIcmahrJ6vKlsMhya6YJdMiXvuvlRT8kXbXL u8RPaaOXeZC4MBieZRwk7ltiKCi4sdy_4PsMZk8kQ9hEvKxIwg3LIu1UesDn IQcfpK5olTcMHWxCJGNFcR5KxY0dl0s2votIY_Kq750YRCiXhN7Y5aNfdi2o cQ3EOBmCyDbV.GHItuc2FEYRSMpGAe.ghZ9MNQqMrfqws9vR.rQ-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: UxXxlhuswBC4wbdewolpwSmT1iJVzQ-- X-Rocket-Received: from sprat (ma1l1ists@92.27.156.6 with login) by smtp108.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Apr 2013 12:17:28 -0700 PDT Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:15:26 +0100 From: Kevin Chadwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Removing pulseaudio In-Reply-To: References: <20130418193224.GA3234@acm.acm> <3ABB284D-A1E7-4C54-A251-C3AE04A5BBA6@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20130418222835.0a729c9f@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> <20130421222033.1df0cba7@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> X-Mailer: KeVs Mailer 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0aaa2103-4ea6-4ba0-8483-71fed8fbbd80 X-Archives-Hash: 91077dcda2964b38f9b1279791a50b5e > > > > So are you saying plugs are no longer required or that they are only > > needed for certain apps that take over the audio device. =20 >=20 > I don't even know exactly what ALSA plugs are, and ALSA has worked > perfectly for all these years, so yeah, whatever an ALSA plug is, either > it is not required anymore, or it is handled automagically by ALSA. Just did a quick Google to refresh my memory and I used plug:dmix as the device file name in order to prevent apps hogging the sound card. =46rom Wikipedia "A card's interface is a description of an ALSA protocol for accessing the card; possible interfaces include: hw, plughw, default, and plug:dmix. The hw interface provides direct access to the kernel device, but no software mixing or stream adaptation support. The plughw and default enable sound output where the hw interface would produce an error." --=20 _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________