Am Do, den 08.04.2004 schrieb Andre Costa um 15:08: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 05:32:15 +0200 > Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > Agreed, but sometimes this is not an option ;) Yes, but I think this was mentioned in my mail. > > > 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. > > Yeah, but still you have to configure devices properly. It took me a > while to properly configure some apps (xmms, gxine, play) to use ALSA so > that they would benefit from software mixing. I registered my > experiences on FedoraNEWS.org hoping it could help others: > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/andre_costa/alsa I read your article and it's very helpful. (BTW: I found a typo in line 6 "confifuration".) Nevertheless there is NO REAL NEED to configure all the applications as you did. In that case the oss-compatibility layer will do it's job. I did not configure anything, so all my applications are set up to use oss. I don't not what functionality I should be missing (well maybe some Dolby 5.1), I still can have simultaneous sounds... Christoph
