On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:36:34AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:28 AM, "Morel Bérenger" >> <berenger.mo...@neutralite.org> wrote: >> >> Pure ALSA works fine if you only need one sound at a time and don't >> >> need/want stuff like per source volume, and don't mind Flash sometimes >> >> messing up and blocking all access to the sound card. >> > >> > I think you are speaking about OSS here, not about alsa. >> > Alsa is able to play more than one soud/music at a time without problem: I >> > can perfectly play wesnoth with sound+music and have mpd running >> > background. (of course, I usually disable wesnoth's music, but not it's >> > sounds) >> >> Nope, I am talking about ALSA. ALSA can only play more than one source >> at a time with its dmix utility (ALSA itself is fundamentally unable >> to do mixing) , but I have never, ever seen dmix work at all. > > Actually, that depends on the hardware. If your hardware can do hardware > mixing (I know of at least one SoundBlaster that can, but I can't > remember which model at the moment), then you can play simultaneous > streams. But for most cards, you have to rely on software mixing (dmix, > pulse, jack etc).
Ah, you a right, I had forgotten. But most consumer cards don't (Xonar don't, for example...higher end Creatives do, but I personally wouldn't go Creative for that), and I don't know if any onboard chips do. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=_4GhZ63YivSQ47Lpx7Q5KKkGMG+�bxyrbgw6luy...@mail.gmail.com
