[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

[Christoph Eckert]

>    as far as user is concerned various apps suddenly get
> frozen, there's no indication they tried to play audio and
> then you have e.g. mozilla looking like it's frozen becuase
> one or another plugin (flash usually) tries to open
> audio...

then the application should be able to provide an alert dialog 
instead of freezing. What about filing a bug report/feature 
request?

[...]

>    looks like dmix solves the problem but it seems like
> it's not that easy to set it up (I haven't tried since I
> have soundcard with hw support for multiple channels).

that's true, but just these days a KDE application appeared on 
sourceforge which is called kasound. Looks promising.


Best regards


    ce