how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Wed Dec 19 00:53:32 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:39 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> But only one daemon instance can access the audio HW at a time. But
> since to awesome projects like HAL and CK PA will automatically be
> notified when the active VT/session is switched. And the PA daemon
> that becomes inactive closes the audio device and the one the becomes
> active opens it.

What if your hardware supports multiple streams? Obviously that should
allow more than one daemon to use the card. But then what about single
user use? Is PA just going to let my multi-stream capable hardware go to
waste?
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