On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:27:37PM +0200, Lucas Moulin wrote:
> I'm using 2.4.22-ben2 and I was wondering of this limitation was due to
> the dma_sound module or a misconfiguration. I know sound servers like
> esd or arts can do this kind of thing, but I'd like it to be possible
> without using any of them. Perhaps MacOS X is using a sound server too,
> actually.
Apple has effectively always had a sound server in their OS. Back in
the old days, it was called the Sound Manager. I forget exactly what
it's called now, but I know there is a software mixer built in. The
Linux sound drivers have historically supported only one stream,
which is why people started writing stuff like esd and arts. If you
go back far enough into the history of the Macintosh, you will get
back to the old Sound Driver for the PWM sound system, which had
limitations even worse than the Linux sound drivers.
Brad Boyer
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