ALSA dmix Questions

[Zachary Kline]

Hello,
What you want is aplay -D plug:dmix file.wav or .au or whatever.  
Hope this helps a little,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:26 PM
Subject: ALSA dmix Questions


>I keep hearing comments about using dmix so a device can be shaared
> between software speech and other sound sources.  I have one laptop here
> that cannot share its device with a standard alsa configuration.  How
> does one implement dmix? I see a definition for dmix in the
> /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.  At present, I do not have a .asoundrc nor
> /etc/asound.conf defined as I haven't needed them yet.  I looked around
> the alsa-project website but haven't found much.  Since some people have
> done that around here, I thought I'd ask here for some quick ideas.  I
> don't need to add anything to a kernel configuration, do I?
> 
> The laptop I have in question has an older Yamaha type card that got
> linked up as an ISA device if I remember off top of my head.  I use
> Slackware 11.0, with Linux 2.6.20 Kernel.  When I attempt to play a wav
> file with something like aplay -D dmix something.wav, I get an error
> that no chanels found so it at least, finds a device but not chanels.  I
> figure it is a confiuration issue.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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