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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by jjmarr on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:55AM (#46791595)
I installed Gentoo in 2014 and getting PulseAudio working was much easier than ALSA. It was also much better.

I get ALSA followed the Unix philosophy of doing one thing but I want my audio mixer to play multiple sounds at once.

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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by account42 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:28AM (#46797534)
Gentoo in 2014 had dmix enabled by default without the need for any user configuration. I know because I was using it.
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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by jjmarr on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:45PM (#46802731)
I got stuck for two weeks installing the kernel because I forgot to mount /boot. Perhaps I disabled it by accident when goofing around in alsamixer? Or my card did or didn't have hardware mixing?

I didn't actually know anything about Linux at the time and started with Gentoo because I saw a meme saying "install Gentoo" and people told me not to start with that distro. So it's possible I messed up the default config by accident.

Either way PulseAudio worked after I emerged it.

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