On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's said a fundamental problem with user space development is > that often new projects are started because feature X is easier when > starting from scratch and so your swapping rather than developing. Is > that the case here or was there a difficult problem in getting alsa to > work with multiple input sources at once by default or more likely was > the difficulty integrating audio distribution which very few actually > care about. Pulseaudio was never meant to replace ALSA, it requires ALSA drivers to run at all.... if anything it was a replacement for ESD et. al.