<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Soundblaster (hw:0) is not seen by PA, works in Yast" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94165#c16">Comment # 16</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Soundblaster (hw:0) is not seen by PA, works in Yast" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94165">bug 94165</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:j.reitsma@hccnet.nl" title="Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@hccnet.nl>"> Jogchum Reitsma</a> <pre>(In reply to Tanu Kaskinen from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=94165#c13">comment #13</a>) > > 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 <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=94165#c12">comment #12</a>. I'll try that as a first step. Thanks so far!</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>