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<DIV>I'm sorry but I don't understand your message. Did it get scrambled or is 
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=anomalsound@gmail.com 
href="mailto:anomalsound@gmail.com">Giorgio</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:48 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=leslie.polzer@gmx.net 
href="mailto:leslie.polzer@gmx.net">leslie.polzer@gmx.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=fluffy_bunny_1988@hotmail.co.uk 
href="mailto:fluffy_bunny_1988@hotmail.co.uk">Jennifer</A> ; <A 
title=linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org 
href="mailto:linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org">linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org</A> 
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [LAU] Alsa or pulseaudio?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Leslie P. Polzer <SPAN 
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href="mailto:sky@viridian-project.de">sky@viridian-project.de</A>&gt;</SPAN> 
wrote:<BR>
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  <DIV class=im><BR>Jennifer wrote:<BR><BR>&gt; I am now using Alsa but can't 
  seem to get multi channel sounds,<BR>&gt; I.E speech and/or system sounds, I 
  only have speech.<BR><BR></DIV>You need to buy a proper sound card with 
  hardware mixing (e.g.<BR>SB Audigy) or configure Alsa to do software mixing. 
  Why modern<BR>distributions don't configure this properly on their own 
  puzzles<BR>me, but they probably just throw in the horrible 
  PulseAudio<BR>without thinking a lot about it.<BR><BR>Oh wait, I just saw an 
  nice bit of news: ALSA 1.0.9rc2 or later<BR>supports software mixing by 
  default, but you probably don't have<BR>that version yet.<BR><BR>The bottom 
  line is that you need to write the proper incantation<BR>into some text file. 
  I don't need that so I'll leave that to<BR>the others to explain who have such 
  a setup...<BR><BR>&nbsp;Cheers,<BR><BR>&nbsp; &nbsp;Leslie<BR><FONT 
  color=#888888><BR>--<BR><A href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer" 
  target=_blank>http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer</A><BR></FONT>
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