On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:06:16AM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: > > This seems like a dumb question (for I was a strict PA denier until recently > > and have been using alsa-only since always), but does PA handle OSS > > applications better than alsa/dmix? Whenever I want to use sidplay, which > > only > > speaks OSS, I need to stop all other audio programs (e.g. press Stop in the > > Clementine player if it's only paused), or else /dev/dsp was busy. > > PA doesn't care about oss (/dev/dsp). It opens the soundcard through > normal alsa interface (which means /dev/dsp becomes busy). You can > either kill pulseaudio, or tell pulseaudio to suspend the correspondig > sink (not sure what exactly happens if an audio stream through PA is active > etc..).
I'm not using PA, I only said I denied it completety until recently. ;-) (I just noticed it was running though, because I installed Gnome 3 a short while ago to sneak a peak). > Regarading oss (/dev/dsp) and plain alsa, it is the same, if something > opens the soundcard through alsa, /dev/dsp becomes busy... (even when > using dmix in alsa, because /dev/dsp is handled by a kernel modules, > dmix is userspace). Thanks for clearing that up. > There is however a way to amke oss work with dmix through aoss > [...] > Then you can run (even multiple) 'aoss mpg123 file.mp3 ...' Hooray for the combined knowledge of mailing lists. That makes me happy as to my question. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. Computer publishers produce computer books that explain what you didn’t understand in computer magazines.
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