[ltp] every thing except the mic?

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:26:28 +0100


Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2008, Richard Neill wrote:
> 
>> Personally, I think pulseaudio is a solution for a non-existent problem:
>> Arts/Esd were obsolete as soon as ALSA got dmix/dsnoop, so I'd just
>> uninstall it.
> 
> but it has some nice features, for example: volume und mute support _per_ application


That's quite useful occasionally - though I'm not sure it's a killer
feature.
Also, on a slow (600 Mhz) machine, I've observed the P.A. daemon to use
30% of the CPU!

Richard