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 1NGfxc-0005vd-V4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:45:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7F6DE079E; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76D0E079E for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE3067FBF for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:44:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.092 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.092 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.493, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fLAAVBPvwY7f for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F84867F18 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NGfwZ-0005zN-5c for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:44:03 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-185-36.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.185.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:44:03 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-185-36.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:44:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:43:37 -0800 Message-ID: References: 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-185-36.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.1a1pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 34af98a7-6564-453d-9f24-a523fa375bcb X-Archives-Hash: 4e8f6dcf34f001e487e77f14798af98c On 12/03/2009 09:08 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: ... > Lately, I've had zero issues with alsa pretty much configuring itself > properly, given I'm using the in kernel alsa drivers for my systems... > and it hasn't required any manual configuration of dmix or similar to > function properly. Last time I used a separate sound daemon (aside > from a short stent with Ubuntu on my netbook that, I think, had me > using pulseaudio), I was running esound to manage audio from a > headless box over my network... and ESD was playing nicely with other > straight alsa apps on the same box... I discovered a few weeks ago that I could completely delete all traces of arts, pulse, *and* esd, and still I can listen to a podcast from npr.org with firefox and play an mp3 using audacious at the same time. (Which drives me totally nuts, BTW, and I did it only as a test.) As you say, alsa seems to DTRT by itself these days. The only thing I'm not sure about is whether the gnome-panel volume/mixer applet is now doing what esound used to do. If you still have esound installed you can try it yourself. Just remove the arts, esd, and pulse USE flags first, then remove any/all of those packages from the machine and revdep-rebuild. It's amazing how many packages are linked against esound and AFAICT they no longer need to be. (This applies to gnome, of course.) OTOH, I haven't tested every sound-related app on my machine, so I might be missing some important exceptions.