Alsa question

[Sean McMahon]

You can play multiple streams with oss.  On my ens1370 soundcard with oss, I
could play music form the internet and run flite at the same time.  Whereas this
is not possable using my ens 1371 soundcard with alsa.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke at volny.cz>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Alsa question


> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:37:14AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't think so. On soundcards able to play multiple streams at once, it's
> possible to open /dev/dsp multiple times even with OSS. So if the emulation is
> done correctly, and it operates over dmix, it should be possible to open
> /dev/dsp by more applications.
>
> Actually I've read in some dmix how-to this is supposed to work.
>
> But I'm also a little puzzled with the magic of /etc/asound.conf and with what
> it's supposed to contain to make dmix and oss emulation work (and the last
step,
> make them work together).
>
> I would recommend asking on alsa-users at alsa-project.org.
>
> With regards,
> Hynek Hanke
>
>
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