Comment 195 for bug 371897

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In , Sorceror (shacklein) wrote :

(In reply to comment #86)
> As a coment to people suggesting suspending Pulse is the solution - a lot of
> people play WoW with a Ventrilo client and need to hear the sound from *both*,
> also it is common to have some relaxing music in the background from a non-Wine
> source. Pulse and DMix can provide that, but DMix is a pain to configure, while
> Pulse looks to be nicely preconfigured out-of-the-box in latest distributions,
> so supporting such mode of operation by default would be very useful.

dmix should not require configuration. It should Just Work(TM) with default settings (i.e. no asound.conf or .asoundrc files).