On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 00:15 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So imagine the average desktop user who gets five or so of > > them: > > > > - one provided by the application (player or something) > > - one provided by PA or similar, > > - probably two by the soundcard mixer, > > PA combines these three into one. So the non-audio-engineer user > should have a lot bigger chance of not messing things up with PA > compared to with pure ALSA (where you do have to fiddle with all the > mixers and the application mixer on top). Sorry if this was what you > were trying to point out. Pff! http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Backends/ALSA/Decibel "Muahaha. Mauahahahahah!" - Lennart Poettering Regards, Ralf