Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (192 mails)

[Cristian Morales Vega <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2009/8/7 Malte Gell <malte.gell@xxxxxx>:
> Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx> wrote
>
> >  There is fate feature #305888 (Disable Pulse Audio by default).
>
> What are the reasons to disable PA by default? Since arts is gone, why should
> KDE4 be left without any sound server at all? Most sound cards do not support
> hardware mixing, this means you *need* a sound server to play audio from
> several sourced at once, e.g. playing music while wathcing some video on the
> web. Wouldn't a clean integration of a sound server like PA make sense?

When the sound card doesn't supports HW mixing ALSA uses dmix by
default since a long time ago. There is no need for a sound server if
the only thing you want is software mixing.
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