On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:02:39 -0400 Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 12:37:16 schrieb Michael Mol: > > > >> I recall reading about dmix in LinuxJournal years ago, but I don't > >> think I ever got around to setting it up; > > > > you don't set it up. It just works. If your sound card does not do > > hardware mixing (onboard sound doesn't) you are using dmix. > > Ah. As I said, I hadn't poked or researched dmix since I read about it > in LinuxJournal. Pretty sure that particular issue came out over ten > years ago. > > That doesn't quite jive with my experience with apps some apps > managing to take exclusive control over sound devices. In particular, > if, e.g. Flash were run under Firefox before WINE or PulseAudio, then > the latter two didn't get to play.* Flash isn't a good example though. It just assumes that it is the most important (only?) thing in the universe, and tries to take over the hardware for itself. If I read recent blogs correctly, even Windows users suffer from the same thing with Flash. I think the presumption in this thread in that sound apps make *some* attempt to play nicely - Flash doesn't fit that category. The only category it fits is "useless crap that should either be deleted or only used when absolutely necessary" -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
