On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 13:17, Alexandre Strube wrote: > Em Sex, 2004-02-20 Ãs 14:43, Mitch Wiedemann escreveu: > > Recent posts have led me to wonder: Are there particular advantages of > > going through the trouble of installing and using ALSA drivers for my > > sound card, if the built-in FC1 drivers work*? > > *except I don't have any midi music when playing DOOM. :( > > Some drivers works, but without multiple channels. My via-82xx, for > instance, when using standard FC1 sound drivers, keep gaim sounds on a > sort of queue when I hear music with XMMS. The music stops, every single > sound event from gaim is played in a row, and then xmms complains about > sound device being busy. > > Its a via-82xx sound chip, and works perfectly with alsa. Take a look here: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/andre_costa/alsa/ for some hints on how to get multiple apps playing together using ALSA. I now have gaim and xmms behaving well together. Now, if I could just get Evolution's new mail notification to work....anyone have any hints on that? I installed ALSA this past week on my Dell 5150 laptop (FC1 w/ 2.4 kernel over an Intel 82801DB audio chip set) and I can definitely notice a big difference in the quality of sound using XMMS and mplayer. It is substantially better. HTH, Marc Schwartz
