Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

["Sascha 'saigkill' Manns" <samannsml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Samstag 08 August 2009 16:46:00 wrote Philipp Thomas:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:18:34 +0200, you wrote:
> > OK.But why we need Pulseaudio. In past Versions we had alsa.
>
> No we don't. All desktop environments have needed a sound manager,
> most of all because most sound hardware doesn't do sound mixing in
> hardware and only ALSA offers its own mixer plugin.
Aaah. Thanks for clarifying.

> So environments
> like enlightenment (ed), GNOME (esd) and KDE (aRts) all had their
The we could say, that pulseaudio is the replacement for aRTs in KDE4?

-- 
Sincerely yours

Sascha Manns
openSUSE Ambassador
openSUSE Marketing Team
openSUSE Build Service
Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to
Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill
Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com