[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 94165] Soundblaster (hw:0) is not seen by PA, works in Yast

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94165

--- Comment #16 from Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma at hccnet.nl> ---
(In reply to Tanu Kaskinen from comment #13)
> 
> I mean that if you can configure timidity to run not as root, but as your
> regular user, you should be able to make timidity and pulseaudio cooperate,
> by making timidity connect to pulseaudio instead of using the sound card
> directly.

OK, I'll try that.
> 
> 
> I guess you mean it's normal for timidity. It's certainly not normal for
> audio programs in general, for a good reason. A daemon that keeps the sound
> card open all the time is very bad, if you want to use the sound card with
> any other software.

Indeed that's what I mean: normal for timidity. I don't know how other sound
daemons, if existent, behave or should behave...
> 
> 
> It's very rare to want to use hardware mixing. I can't name any good reason
> why that would be required, and indeed many (I'd guess most) sound cards
> don't support it at all.

I cannot either (as said, I don't really mix sounds at all), except that it's
odd that a major player in the market designs hardware that makes it possible,
if there's no use for it. 
> 
> I don't know why Soundblaster cards bother with hardware mixing nowadays. In
> ancient history that was probably done to save some CPU, and maybe also the
> reality was that operating systems didn't provide audio mixing capabilities.

Well, if I can indeed persuade timidity to run as normal user instead of root,
the problem may be gone for me. Don't know if that is possible, because it is
started as a service on boot.
Or, skip timidity al all and use the hardware wavetable synth from the card, as
Raymond suggests in comment #12. I'll try that as a first step.

Thanks so far!

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