Alsa question

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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I have the latest Debian alsa packages installed and am running a 2.6 kernel.  I
have the following section in my /etc/asound.conf, which is the sample that
ships with the libasound2 library:

# Make OSS apps default to using dmix plugin too
pcm.dsp0 {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "dmix"
}

This makes me think that through alsa's oss emulation, anything that writes to
/dev/dsp0 should be able to use dmix.  However, this is not the case.  Is there
something else I need to do to make this section work the way it appears it
should?  Does this section not even do what it appears to do?  Do I have to use
aoss, since using it would seem to make the above section of my asound.conf
unnecessary and the configuration would seem to make aoss unnecessary?

Thanks for any help,
Lorenzo
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