<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:10, Colin Guthrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">> If you really don't want to change anything in the pa design, simply offer a<br> > way that pa can prevented to take exclusive access to the soundhardware<br> > by falling back to alsa's dmix.<br> <br> </div>No, that's not the right approach. This has been discussed many times on<br> this list. Just look at the archives, I'm not wasting hours of my life<br> reiterating what has already been discussed.</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>A quick look around with google didn't indicate anything, except instructions on how to enable dmix instead of/in-addition-to pulseaudio.<div> <br></div><div>Dmix seems to be the solution that alot of the pulseaudio critics suggest as the silver bullet to audio problems... maybe the argument about dmix can be iterated once more in a wiki page, so there's a more permanent reference for that information?</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div style="text-align:right">Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= <a href="mailto:jeremy@nickurak.ca" target="_blank">jeremy@nickurak.ca</a> =- </div><br> </div>