Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is, if you are using >1.0.9 ALSA. I did not do anything do setup dmix and > it works fine. Ah, I see my knowledge of dmix is obsolete. Now I can purge it to make room for something else! :-> -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:02, Richard Fish wrote: > > But since ALSA now has the dmix plugin that works pretty well for > those cards that do not provide hardware mixing, the only reason to > continue to use a sound server is if you have trouble configuring > dmix. The use of dmix is not autom

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: > > On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on > > linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound > > server or am I better off to use ALSA direct

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: > > Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume > aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this > out at the moment) > It comes from alsa-oss. This package gets compiled automatically, as a depend

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Michael Crute
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: > > > > So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds > > in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I > > have done it before but I can not seem

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: > > So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds > in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I > have done it before but I can not seem to get it working now. A google > search seems to get me now