At Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:51:13 +0100,
Z_God wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I've got a mainboard with a Via686 onboard audiochip. When I use 4front's 
> OSS/Linux, I'm able to use a second playback only wave channel (without 
> virtual mixer). It seems that this second channel is used normally in 
> Dos/Windows for Midi music.

no, the second dsp on the commercial oss is the software mix device on
kernel.  it's evil :)  such a job shouldn't be on the kernel.

> Is it possible to use this channel also when using ALSA? I just set up 
> Timidity and I'm able to use it as an ALSA server, but currently when I do 
> that, the wave-out is busy so I can't play any other thing anymore. If I 
> could let Timidity use that second channel, my problems would probably 
> resolved, especially if that second channel would also provide a serperate 
> volume slider. Is what I'm thinking possible? Thanks in advance.

try to use dmix plugin.


ciao,

Takashi


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