On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:27:47 +0100, Damjan <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no >>> feedback on this. >>> >>> This either means it works well, or nobody uses it. >>> >>> So I'm asking for it now, especially from GNOME and KDE users running >>> PulseAudio. >> >> I tested it a while on KDE and as expected it has downsides compared to >> using plain alsa. :-) I lost all controls in kmix except of only one >> volume control. > > The benefit is that Flash will not f**k and lock your sound card. These problems are solved since years. I even made a test. Playing two flash videos, playing music through mplayer with alsa and starting an old game which uses oss. All this works just fine with plain alsa. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre