Re: ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-10 Thread Nicolás Velásquez O.
Hey there, El Sáb 10 Jul 2004 04:08, B. Douglas Hilton escribió: > First, why use xmms when Alsaplayer is so cool? Its really good IMHO. > Alsa is great, especially if you are a musician or work with midi or > such. Nothing beats it. I tried, the sound works like a charm...but I'll keep using xmm

Re: ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-10 Thread Nicolás Velásquez O.
Hey there, El Sáb 10 Jul 2004 04:08, B. Douglas Hilton escribió: > First, why use xmms when Alsaplayer is so cool? Its really good IMHO. > Alsa is great, especially if you are a musician or work with midi or > such. Nothing beats it. I tried, the sound works like a charm...but I'll keep using xmm

Re: ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-10 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
First, why use xmms when Alsaplayer is so cool? Its really good IMHO. Alsa is great, especially if you are a musician or work with midi or such. Nothing beats it. For mplayer, hmm... mine works and is self compiled, make sure you have your kernel source compiled and supposedly it will detect a

Re: ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-10 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:37:26PM -0700, Chris Metcalf wrote: > Has anybody had a good experience getting the Dmix plugin working well > with ALSA? > > I'm trying to get my laptop (Thinkpad X31 using the snd_intel8x0 ALSA > module) to be able to play more than one wave channel at once, but I'm >

Re: ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-10 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
First, why use xmms when Alsaplayer is so cool? Its really good IMHO. Alsa is great, especially if you are a musician or work with midi or such. Nothing beats it. For mplayer, hmm... mine works and is self compiled, make sure you have your kernel source compiled and supposedly it will detect al

Re: ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-10 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:37:26PM -0700, Chris Metcalf wrote: > Has anybody had a good experience getting the Dmix plugin working well > with ALSA? > > I'm trying to get my laptop (Thinkpad X31 using the snd_intel8x0 ALSA > module) to be able to play more than one wave channel at once, but I'm >

Re: ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-09 Thread Nicolás Velásquez O.
Hello there, My system: - Dell, Inspiron 5100 - Debian sarge - snd_intel8x0 - Self compiled kernel 2.6.7 I've had not so nice experiences (neither dmix nor asym) with it: - Using xmms, if there is a lot of disk usage, audio will stop playing. - Using (self compiled) mplayer, the audio won't pla

Re: ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-09 Thread Nicolás Velásquez O.
Hello there, My system: - Dell, Inspiron 5100 - Debian sarge - snd_intel8x0 - Self compiled kernel 2.6.7 I've had not so nice experiences (neither dmix nor asym) with it: - Using xmms, if there is a lot of disk usage, audio will stop playing. - Using (self compiled) mplayer, the audio won't pla

ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-09 Thread Chris Metcalf
Has anybody had a good experience getting the Dmix plugin working well with ALSA? I'm trying to get my laptop (Thinkpad X31 using the snd_intel8x0 ALSA module) to be able to play more than one wave channel at once, but I'm not having much success. Any helpful direction (howtos, good/bad experienc

ALSA / DMIX

2004-07-09 Thread Chris Metcalf
Has anybody had a good experience getting the Dmix plugin working well with ALSA? I'm trying to get my laptop (Thinkpad X31 using the snd_intel8x0 ALSA module) to be able to play more than one wave channel at once, but I'm not having much success. Any helpful direction (howtos, good/bad experienc