Re: [Alsa-user] Using hw device in presence of PulseAudio

2014-09-09 Thread Sergei Steshenko
What you want is impossible in principle, regardless of PulseAudio specifically (i.e my statement applies to any kind of sound server with similar functionality) and ALSA speicifically (i.e my statement applies to any kind of direct HW access interface). The point is that for an HW device to

Re: [Alsa-user] Using hw device in presence of PulseAudio

2014-09-09 Thread chris hermansen
Sergei, Paul, list... On Sep 9, 2014 11:01 AM, Sergei Steshenko steshenko_ser...@list.ru wrote: What you want is impossible in principle, regardless of PulseAudio specifically (i.e my statement applies to any kind of sound server with similar functionality) and ALSA speicifically (i.e my

Re: [Alsa-user] Using hw device in presence of PulseAudio

2014-09-08 Thread Sergei Steshenko
Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:38:54 -0700 от Paul A. Steckler st...@stecksoft.com: I have an app that uses the ALSA library on Linux. The app calls snd_pcm_open() to open the capture device. Currently, I use default as the name of the device. According to arecord -L, the default device is the PulseAudio

Re: [Alsa-user] Using hw device in presence of PulseAudio

2014-09-08 Thread Paul A. Steckler
Well, I meant, keep PulseAudio running, but still use ALSA without using the PulseAudio server device, which other applications may want to use. -- Paul On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Sergei Steshenko steshenko_ser...@list.ru wrote: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:38:54 -0700 от Paul A. Steckler

[Alsa-user] Using hw device in presence of PulseAudio

2014-09-05 Thread Paul A. Steckler
I have an app that uses the ALSA library on Linux. The app calls snd_pcm_open() to open the capture device. Currently, I use default as the name of the device. According to arecord -L, the default device is the PulseAudio server. Is there a way to bypass PulseAudio, and communicate with the