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 1S29LI-0005oO-G9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:46:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E234E089A; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACED9E07F8 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so877747wer.40 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:44:40 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of markknecht@gmail.com designates 10.180.84.137 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.84.137; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of markknecht@gmail.com designates 10.180.84.137 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=markknecht@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=markknecht@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.84.137]) by 10.180.84.137 with SMTP id z9mr2398885wiy.22.1330382680022 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:44:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=VjVkG2Wr6arLRQ6RSzJHdgGrVxu0P79Vxv1QpZ1+NzE=; b=vXIySaoCaK7FEUg9CJ76xTIASUs/5zrv7QoUzAr5zhu9mLIPfQ9Eg1k7w/RYj12cMB p0Zyw+4au0nmhamFgwEKFfhs49bg5Eq6OI2q9lLsC9ywyrYD5VTvqk7MvvpoUn4X1wuL XFtEe7dnbEHnoYcZa+dL3z5XXbpi0W3IFL/xk= 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 Received: by 10.180.84.137 with SMTP id z9mr1879036wiy.22.1330382679982; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:44:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.4.154 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:44:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20120227135021.025a9e41@mini> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:44:39 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a83153b9-3b2e-4caa-b31d-e621b5af0e1a X-Archives-Hash: 2dff3f5ddf89319cd012eb801bbbae29 On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews >>> wrote: >>>> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something >>>> else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? >>> >>> alsa dmix >>> >> >> Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's >> how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. > > Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so. > Yeah, when you wrote dmix the light turned on about how KDE (and I suspect most desktop managers) is likely doing it. - Mark