Alsa question

[Janina Sajka]

alsa only emmulates oss.

Since oss only supports one sound source at a time, alsa can't fix that
behavior by emmulating what oss does and how it behaves.

That wouldn't be logical now, would it?


Lorenzo Taylor writes:
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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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