Re: Pulseaudio

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

Last time I tried PulseAudio (over a year ago) it hogged the sound
device and did not let any other ALSA client produce sound.

Can someone confirm the bug is still there?  Just (e.g.) play some music
with PulseAudio and then start an ALSA client, check that mixing is
being done.

If the bug is still there then I would not recommend anyone using
PulseAudio.  Unless you want to see for example your flash plugin sound
to stop working, like it didn't usually work in the old days when it
used OSS API.


On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 22:26 +0200, Matteo Settenvini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to this list, so sorry if I ask something already discussed.
> 
> It has been a while since esound has received some attention - releases
> are almost stalled. Looking at the GNOME wiki, it seems that Pulseaudio
> is the stronger candidate between alternatives, and that it allows for
> quite a lot of nifty things.
> 
> I'm running pulseaudio since four or five months now on two of my
> desktop systems, both x86 and PPC, and I must say that I'm really
> satisfied by it. 
> It's quite stable and has very few compelling bugs for the normal user
> (e.g. when using it as an esound replacement on a machine with more than
> a logged in user it doesn't share the esd socket, or similar).
> 
> It also seems to be actively developed, and is shipped by default with
> Fedora 8.
> 
> Can it be eligible for inclusion in GNOME 2.22?
> 
> Thanks for any answer, 
> -- 
> Matteo Settenvini
> FSF Associated Member
> Email : matteo member fsf org
> 
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