Re: Pulseaudio

From: David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>
To: Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>
Cc: matteo member fsf org, desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Pulseaudio
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:05:01 -0400

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 23:55 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is a sound server such as esd or pulseaudio still needed at all? As far
> as I understand, ALSA allows access from multiple applications. It
> supports hardware mixing and provides dmix as a fallback on systems
> where hardware mixing is not available. For the casual user, this should
> be sufficient. Or is it not?

IIRC dmix doesn't really work well with fast-user-switching. OTOH, Pulse
works just fine with that.

     David

References:
- Pulseaudio
  - From: Matteo Settenvini
- Re: Pulseaudio
  - From: Sven Neumann

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