[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]

[Jan Steffens]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you cite a case or reproduction whereby via ALSA's dmix, an
> instance of Flash has reserved the output for itself? The last time
> that ever occured was before dmix got into mainline ALSA, where OSS
> was a valid output within Flash and there was a way to use 'aoss'. I
> don't know whether that remains to be the case, but it should not and
> I have not faced this issue for a long time.

I can't cite anything, but I remember helping multiple people on IRC
during the last year.

Even if it's not Flash, any application grabbing the OSS output will
cause this problem. Or may fail to output sound if the device is
already in use by dmix or pulse.