It’s 2018 and you can run Crysis on integrated graphics, but Linux still can’t play two sounds at the same time on anything.
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Is there any way to block the boneheaded apps and just allow the mixing source?
I don't think there's any way to block an app that *really* wants to directly open the hardware device (short of some really ugly nonstandard permissions hack). It only works while audio is idle, though, it won't "take over" pulseaudio if it's playing something.
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Would an audio stream made up of 0 count as something in this case? So PA is always playing but can mix in the actual sounds you want as you want them. Probably a dumb idea though.
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Yes, it would. Though I think you can just disable the feature. Comment out 'load-module module-suspend-on-idle' in /etc/pulse/default.pa and I think that should leave the device always open.
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