Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ubuntu 9.10, Pulseaudio - anybody had luck lately?

[Csaba H. <csa...@gm...>]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:56 AM, James Sleeman <fli...@go...> wrote:
> Csaba Halász wrote:
>> These are two questions as I see it.
>> James wants to *use* pulse while most users would be happy to just
>> have FG work *around* pulse.
>> For this latter case, I believe an alsoftrc with alsa driver and
>> dmix/dsnoop devices should be fine.
>>
>
> I could work around pulse, by killing pulse, using flightgear and
> restarting pulse.  But that seems a particularly unpleasant workaround.

But have you actually tried keeping pulse running and directing openal
to alsa dmix?
I don't use pulse myself, so I am just guessing that the topology
would be something like this:

FG -----------> OpenAl  ---> ALSA (dmix) ----> hardware
app1 ----------------> pulse ----^
app2 --- ALSA (pulse) ---^

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Csaba/Jester