On Freitag 12 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/12/2009 08:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 12 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 06/12/2009 07:58 PM, Beso wrote: > >>> finally, 4.3 will mark the removal of my old 3.5 installation. i think > >>> that for about 90% of people will be finally able to switch entirely to > >>> kde4. The apps are now mostly complete and the 3.5 apps that are still > >>> maintained have now been ported; plasma is ok and quite customizable, > >>> the backends are working well, with the exception of pulseaudio that is > >>> now having some problems with the phonon backend when used in > >>> conjuction with flash and old apps that lock directly the physical > >>> card, but i suspect that this is due to some configuration issue. > >> > >> If you don't need networked sound, you can uninstall pulseaudio and alsa > >> and use oss4 (there's an ebuild). I did that and old programs who want > >> exclusive access to /dev/dsp work OK without locking the sound. KDE 4 > >> works fine with using Xine backend. This will need putting "-alsa oss" > >> in make.conf though and a rebuild of all packages that use those flags. > > > > hm, I never met an app that blocked /dev/dsp cpmpletly in the last couple > > of years, could you name an example? > > Everything, without even a single exception. I then switched to aRts > and ESD on top of ALSA for a couple of years. Before a year or so I > switched to OSS4 after it got GPLed since I prefer having just one audio > system instead of 3.
nothing with none exception. I had to set up dmix a long time ago, then it worked automagically.. but blocking apps? nope. Sound daemons like arts or esd - yes, those blocked sound and were a pain in the ass.
