On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 08:31:55PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Saturday 06 May 2006 16:47, Marty wrote: > >>My system is stock Sarge, with Gnome and stock Debian kernel. > >> > >>I rarely use OSS programs, and when I did try to use one recently I found > >>that OSS was not working. After some investigation I found that it > >>started > >>working again after I unchecked the "enable sound server startup" option > >>in > >>the Gnome applications->desktop preferences->sound dialog box. Now all > >>programs seem to have sound, but I can only run one OSS program at a time. > >>(ALSA programs still share the soundcard.) > > > >This isn't an OSS or esound limitation. Your sound card can only play one > >sound at a time. Esound can work around this for esound-enabled programs. > >But what you really want in the long run is something like a SoundBlaster > >128 Live!, which costs only $30 and can play many sounds at once. > > > > I don't recall having this problem with OSS programs before, therefore I > concluded, maybe incorrectly, that esound had been mixing OSS program sound. > > Another twist is that I'm not using real OSS, but ALSA OSS emulation. > Obviously > that crucial detail should have been in my original post. >
I think you have to turn on oss mixing using the dmix (dmixer?) plugin which provides software mixing for single input sound cards. there is a how-to or 2 at the alsa site. google on dmix plugin and oss and alsa should find it. you' set up mixing in a .asoundrc file. hth A
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