Alsa question

Thomas Stivers stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
Mon Aug 15 13:45:26 EDT 2005


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On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:24:45 AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> 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.

I have had exactly the oposite experience with the same or at least a
similar card. I have made it play multiple streams using alsa and the
dmix plugin, but was getting loads of /dev/dsp is busy type messages
with oss. What was your magic touch?

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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