I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:01:24AM +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Yes, mine does.  Clicking on a link here in kmail ALWAYS runs firefox with two 
> > tabs, both linked somehow so that if I scroll one of then and quit that tab, 
> > the remaining tab has also been scrolled to the same place.  But they are not 
> > in synch when the links video plays, so in order to stop the confusion of all 
> > the doubletalk, I have to kill one tab, usually the top(2nd) tab.  I think 
> > that is evidence that my card DOES do hardware mixing.
> 
> Actually, I think dmix (alsa's software mixing solution) is enabled by
> default in alsa now (though I could be wrong).  
> 

Yes, dmix has been the default for a while now.

I'm still not sure about integrated sound cards supporting hardware mixing..
Feel free to prove me wrong.. :)

-- Pasi