Comment by jjmarr
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.
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.
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.
Gentoo in 2014 had dmix enabled by default without the need for any user configuration. I know because I was using it.