Am Freitag, 7. August 2009 23:11:53 schrieb Malte Gell:
Cristian Morales Vega
wrote 2009/8/7 Malte Gell
: Lubos Lunak
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.
How can I check, whether dmix is correctly running? I just noticed, without sound server I was not able to listen to MP3 music and to e.g. KDE system sound at the same time... And when I used Skype I was not able to use a media player at the same time, so I guess I don't have a running dmix plugin?
Sounds like my usual pulseaudio symptoms... Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org