Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Colin Walters">

> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:55 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > [...] If they're using polypaudio, then the polypaudio daemon will be
> > holding the sound device, so to start their app they'll have to hunt
> > down every other possible user and close it.
> 
> (And terminate the Polypaudio daemon...then restart it when they close the
> app...)

Better: A polypaudio module to manage a JACK connection, instead of using
the ALSA device directly.

- Jeff

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