Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 22:47 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: >> >> Now I wonder, is it possible to have some applications accessing the >> native ALSA device while pulseaudio is running? > > Basically, no, the sound-card cannot be shared that way. Perhaps if > you use dmix, but apps which use mmap don't play well with that either > I think. Now that you mention this, I remember that while I was still using solely ALSA, it was not possible to play sound from other applications while aeolus was running.
