Am Do, den 08.04.2004 schrieb Mike Frisch um 04:52: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:44:23PM -0300, Nelson Guedes Paulo Junior wrote: > > I could configure xmms to play in DSP1, but I figure that it had only > > two DSP's (0 and 1) to chose from and on windows I'm almost certain that > > it could play at least 4 simultaneous sounds! Am I wrong???? > > I think the 'proper' solution is to use either artsd or esd for > multiplexing accesses to the soundcard. (I am joining this thread late, > so I apologize if this has already been mentioned) Sorry, but I think are wrong: With alsa there's no need for a sounddaemon like arts or esd. Softwaremixing needs additional hardware resources (CPU and Mem), so I prefer hardware mixing. And (sorry:-)) I think Chadley is wrong, too. If alsa is set up with oss-emulation layer it is completely transparent, you can play multiple sounds at once without changing to another dsp device. __BUT_(of course): Your soundcard needs to support hardware mixing. See http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php3?vendor=All#matrix if your card is marked with a "4" in the "Notes" column. So I'd like to ask Nelson to post the relevant parts of his /etc/modules.conf. These are mine: ... # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 # module options should go here post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 # (onboard, not used) # module options should go here post-install snd-card-1 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : pre-remove snd-card-1 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss # card #2 (not used) alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss #alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss (sequenzer can only be used once) alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss Hope this might be helpful. (If your card is does not support hardwaremixing forget about this mail and use esd or arts :-) Christoph
