Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Jul 2006 21:19 UTC
GNOME 2.15.4 has been released. "This is our fourth development release on our road towards GNOME 2.16.0, which will be released in September 2006. GNOME 2.15.4 has some rough edges but you should definitely try it to see how well it works." Easiest way to get it is via GARNOME.
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It does. It's called ALSA. ESD is just a front end for GNOME and its applications to interact with, "transparently."
Wrong. ALSA does not do software mixing by default. You have to manually configure it to do that, unless your distro sets it up. And as I said a while ago already, I can not see any reason why they can't just dynamically apply dmix plugin when the driver doesn't support multiple opens. That would be useful from the end-user point of view, though it may not be that interesting for the devs.
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2005-07-11
That's something I've always hated about sound on Linux (coming from a FreeBSD background where this is handled transparently by the kernel). Why doesn't the Linux kernel do software mixing of virtual sound devices (/dev/dsp0.0 through /dev/dsp0.whatever)? Why the need for a multitude of external sound servers that may or may not play nice together?