On 03/14/2010 01:41 PM, Craig White wrote: > > Linux has had sound devices and drivers since way back but the software > had always laid claim to the devices directly which didn't permit things > like alert sounds sent by the OS when you were say playing music or > watching youtube or whatever. And if you want your music without interruptions (os or mail beeps) - I assume that is easily configurable? > Note that most every > distribution is also using pulse audio now. > Although, as an aside, anyone doing (serious) audio turns off pulse and uses jack - at least best I can tell from those I know that do audio processing . For real time audio in particular pulse is not ideal - as you really do need dedicated channels with 0 possibility of interrupts coming in. Pulse seems targeted at desktop use rather than audio processing. Tho I don't know why in principal pulse could not support a dedicated 'jack' mode? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines