On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 02:21, Sagi Bashari wrote: > I installed ALSA on computer running RedHat 8.0 with Hercules Game > Theater XP Sound Card. > > According to the ALSA website, this card should support hardware mixing, > so I should be able to play more than one file in the same time. > > After I start to play the first file, every file I'm trying to play will > simply hang until the first one finishes. > > I read somewhere that this is the intended behavior and if a programmer > wants to he can disable it in his program code (using nonblock or > something like that). > > However, I would like to enable it globally.
Well.... I just posted a somewhat similar question last night about my nForce chip. :-) Are you sure 'Hardware mixing' is what you need to play multiple files ... I got the impression it was 'Multiple I/O' (but I could be totally mistaken). Where on the ALSA website, exactly, did you find out your card supported 'Hardware mixing'? While I'm pretty sure my card *does* support whatever is required to play multiple files at once (I learned a SoundBlaster PCI128 does as does a SB Live, so surely it must be common in nice cards, right?) I would like to see if I can find out for sure. Sadly, I haven't received any responses to my original query. I'm somewhat at a loss as far as all this sound stuff goes, but may (or may not) take it to the developers list if nobody has a clue... :-) Rob ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
