[linux-audio-user] What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 22:50 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > looks like dmix solves the problem
> 
> AFAIK this depends. It solves the problem for apps which want 
> to access the ALSA device (HW:0 etc.), but as soon as an app 
> tries to get OSS access via /dev/dsp DMIX cannot do 
> softwaremixing. Maybe I'm wrong, but AFAIK such apps need to 
> be started with the aoss wrapper. And no user starts mozilla 
> as "aoss mozilla", does he?

Then the distros need to provide a wrapper script, or the mozilla devs
should make sure that plugins are launched via aoss.

Lee