[conspire] Good page about debugging Linux audio problems

[Ruben Safir]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:43:44PM -0700, Don Marti wrote:
> begin Ruben I Safir quotation of Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:43:49PM -0400:
> 
> > There was a time when I could set up ALSA to take multiple
> > applications without a problem.
> > It won't do  it any more.   Any clues?
> 
> Had a hardware "upgrade" recently.  Most of the new
> sound hardware doesn't do hardware mixing, which
> means that you have to either (1) carefully configure
> your applications so that only one tries to open the
> device at a time, or (2) come down on the "Lennart
> Poettering is NOT the Antichrist" side of the debate
> and turn PulseAudio back on.
> 


So your saying that there is a change in the hardware?

:(
 
 I thought this had to do with esd.


> (PulseAudio runs fine on my pretty much stock Debian
> laptop.)
> 
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