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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-March/012633.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-March/012633.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8bb6dd283 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-March/012633.html @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] soundwrapper + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20soundwrapper&In-Reply-To=%3C4F554401.20400%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="012632.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="012684.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] soundwrapper</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20soundwrapper&In-Reply-To=%3C4F554401.20400%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] soundwrapper">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Mar 5 23:53:53 CET 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="012632.html">[Mageia-dev] soundwrapper +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="012684.html">[Mageia-dev] soundwrapper +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#12633">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#12633">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#12633">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#12633">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and zezinho at 05/03/12 21:14 did gyre and gimble: +><i> maybe a silly question, but what is nowadays use of soundwrapper? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Some games still use it in the menu shortcut, while sound still works without +</I>><i> it for me with and without pulse... am I missing some specials configs? +</I> +It's been discussed several times on the list over the last few months, +but it's still needed (or rather desirable) for now. + +Ultimately sound would still "work" even without pulse, but the problem +comes when trying to open the sound system from multiple apps. e.g. your +mail notifier may try to play an alert sound, or your desktop may try to +tell you that the battery level is critial while you're playing your +full-screen game. + +If the game uses OSS, it will get exclusive access to it when used with +the ALSA OSS modules. + +Nowadays things work very different with PulseAudio enabled. It does not +use the ALSA OSS modules but instead emulates the /dev/dsp nodes via a +userspace character device emulation layer (CUSE) which in turn proxies +things directly to PulseAudio. This avoids the need for soundwrapper at +all and in fact the latest version of soundwrapper will be a NOP if it +detects osspd as running. + +As I stated in mails a few weeks ago on this topic, it might make sense +to drop soundwrapper in mga3 if osspd can prove to work in all cases +where we want it. It would be a shame to see soundwrapper go and David +has done a great job with it over the years, but if it's no longer +needed then such is the way of things. + +Time will tell however. + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="012632.html">[Mageia-dev] soundwrapper +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="012684.html">[Mageia-dev] soundwrapper +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#12633">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#12633">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#12633">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#12633">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |