On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:43:45 +0100 Movi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I specialize in building Debian systems (usually unstable) since in > Poland there is a rush to be "legal" (the truth is that the police > and some workplaces are sending police to check on workers/students > homes if they own legal software. If they do not, they pay 3x the > worth of the pirated software). Since when i first installed my first > Debian, i used to have a CMI8738. the biggest thing that bugged me was > the "software mixer" problem. Neither Arts nor ESD covered my needs. > Then i turned to ALSA (it was version 0.9.5 when i started using it). > I mustsay that the quality of Sound services is MUCH greater than in > OSS. However, i did NOT get around how to set up DMIX so that all > programs talk to the plug instead of the chip. After that i decided to > buy a card that support HW mixing, a SB Live! 1024. A wise choice, > especially that these cards are dirt-cheap nowadays. > > Today as i encounter different configurations, some ppl ask why are > they allowed to run only 1 sound service at a time. If i reply to them > that their hardware doesn't support it, they say "but i never had such > problem with windows". And i can't really say a thing because DMIX is > VERY poorly documented. Can someone PLEASE make up a generic .asound > thatwould do the aforementioned thing?
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin provides a good description, including how to force some non-alsa apps to use it. You may need to adjust some of the settings in the .asoundrc for your card. - Myk ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
