Should I use Pulse Audio?

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Running Suse 11.0 atm. When running a game or anything that uses sound,
I get the usual error that the sound device is in use if I try to play
music, video or anything else. Linux only likes to use one sound stream
at a time. This can be pretty annoying sometimes.

I am a bit leery of using Pulse Audio as people seem to have a lot of
problems with it.

Would PA solve my sound problems or make them worse?

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mooreted;1901486 Wrote:
> Running Suse 11.0 atm. When running a game or anything that uses sound,
> I get the usual error that the sound device is in use if I try to play
> music, video or anything else. Linux only likes to use one sound stream
> at a time. This can be pretty annoying sometimes.
>
> I am a bit leery of using Pulse Audio as people seem to have a lot of
> problems with it.
>
> Would PA solve my sound problems or make them worse?

What is you’re purpose ?
To get two ore more different sounds at the same time ?
dobby9

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I’m not sure if you should use it or not but I had all kinds of
problems getting my sound working correctly until I removed pulse
audio.

I doubt things will get worse but it may be challenging to get things
to work properly with pulse audio, at least it was turning out that way
for me.

I am hoping I don’t have similar problems when I make the move to 11.1
in the near future.

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Another problem with only being able to use one sound device. How do I
answer SkyPe calls if I’m playing music or a game? It sucks you can only
do one thing at a time.

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Okay, installed PulseAudio. Followed the perfect setup. So far I can now
play two things at once. Now, to get PA to allow me to use it’s tools.

Off to search for more answers.

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