Paul Jones wrote: > ALSA with Pulseaudio. This is because the Gentoo configuration files sets > the default ALSA device as "dmix" This is obviously unnecessary if you're > using Pulseaudio. I don't want to take the performance hit of using dmix > with Pulseaudio because I want the speed. If you wish to mix PulseAudio and applications that use ALSA directly, then you must use dmix (unless you have a sound card capable of hw mixing, but that doesn't seem to be the case here). Rgds -- Pierre Ossman OpenSource-based Thin Client Technology System Developer Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00 Cendio AB Web: http://www.cendio.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20070215/32bb85fd/attachment.pgp>