Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 00:29 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> If you start Firefox to play a Flash URL, Amarok is silent, till you >> kill Firefox and Amarok, and restart Amarok. Similarly, if you start >> Amarok, Firefox/Flash will be silent till Amarok is killed and Firefox >> is restarted. I thought Pulseaudio was supposed to provide multiplex >> capabilities for Linux -- apparently not. > > It is supposed to, but will still be held up by other things which do > not use PulseAudio. Any one of them grabbing hold of the audio > hardware, and not letting go, will prevent anything else from using it, > including PulseAudio. Yes, but isn't PulseAudio also supposed to provide fake device files so programs that do this can't actually get exclusive control and instead use PulseAudio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio)? Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
