I've got the AMD-768 Opus Audio controller, which apparently uses the intel AC97 driver, and I can't seem to run more than one sound application at once, neither in alsa native or in oss emulation mode. For example, running xmms and xine at the same time makes whatever program was launched last not be able to access the sound device.
I did some reading on this problem and found that my sound device might not support multiple audio stream mixing in hardware, and that I would have to use some kind of software mixing. It's either a sound daemon or alsa's native software mixing where possible.
-I don't like sound daemons, esd has some annoying 'features' and I'm not familiar enough with the other daemons- and what's the point of using new shiny nice alsa if I have to run a daemon in addition?
-It seems that the native alsa mixing isn't supported by most sound- outputting programs that I use regularily.
My questions are therefore, as I haven't been able to find answers for them:
- Am I using the right driver? It does after all work.
- How come the old(OSS i guess) intel8x0 driver of 2.4.x kernel fame works as expected, with several programs running and all?
- Are there alternatives to sound daemons or the alsa software mixer?
- Am I doing the right thing with the alsa software mixer? My .asoundrc is attached.
I would appreciate it greatly if someone could point me in the right direction for answers to some of these questions.
Regards,
Kacper-- My GnuPG public key is available from pgp.mit.edu
pcm.intel8x0 {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:1,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 0
}
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