From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Marco Moock  wrote:   
   > On 16.01.2025 13:45 Uhr root wrote:   
   >   
   >> As far as pulseaudio, I can get sound on the machine I am writing   
   >> now. I only ventured into pulseaudio in hopes that it might   
   >> solve the sound problem on the other machine. After 5 hours   
   >> I know I never want anything to do with pulseaudio, or as   
   >> I believe its relative systemd.   
   >   
   > Alsa has several restrictions. IIRC only one sound output to one   
   > device, so they can block each other. I use Pulseaudio and it works   
   > fine.   
      
   ALSA has no such restriction.   
      
   Some hardware has that restriction, in which case unless one configures   
   Alsa to do mixing in the driver, multiple simultaneous outputs will   
   block each other.   
      
   But on hardware that provides a hardware mixer, ALSA will not block   
   simultaneous outputs, they just get mixed together.   
      
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