Can't share audio in ALSA

[Gerardo]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 11:02 -0400, Gerardo wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if this might have something to do, but I have three audio
>> devices.  HDA NVidia (my sound card), Conexant CX8801 (PC-HDTV 5500 TV
>> tuner card), and USB Device 0x46d:0x807 (Logitech Webcam microphone).
>> When I get a chance, I will unplug the TV card and the USB camera and
>> see if the problem keeps happening.
>
> It's a shame that you can't get pulse working. I just plugged in a USB
> webcam, the mike was correctly identified, on the fly and I could switch
> to it to test, also on the fly. No rebooting, no configuration, no nadda
> zip. Just works. Why KDE chose to go the way they have with audio blows
> my mind.
>
> Since I suspected such, what I did was install Ubuntu / Gnome lucid
> first. I logged into Gnome and tested my audio. ~Worked perfectly~. THEN
> I installed the KDE desktop. Sound still working. I went into several
> apps, like xine, and made sure that they addressed pulse. Now they all
> work perfectly. I'm as happy as a clam, for the first time in a long
> time. When an app like firefox grabs that internal 4.1 audio I can play
> another file through the USB stereo headset, at the same time. I do not
> use an external mike to my sound card, so I have all apps needing
> microphone input using the boom mike on my USB headset. No feedback
> worries and Skype sees it just fine. I didn't have to do anything, is my
> point. I've edited .asound files until I turned blue in the face for a
> long time. Now, I don't. I bitched and moaned about pulse for a long
> time, too. Now, I don't. Jus' my two cents, for the record, that KDE
> made a huge mistake in hammering pulse, now that it is mature. Ric
>
>
I wouldn't mind reinstalling Pulse if that would solve my problems. 
Other than installing all Pulse packages, is there anything that I would 
have to do in order to make it work?  Would I have to install the entire 
Gnome desktop?