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

[Dave Phillips]

Greetings:

Btw, I recently discovered kasound, a configuration utility for creating 
a custom .asoundrc file. It's here:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/kasound/

Alas, it's KDE-dependent and I'm out of date with current KDE. However, 
it does address another one of my Linux audio botherations: A lack of 
GUI-based ALSA configuration utilities.

I'm glad Clemens Ladisch is here to help, but it would be sweet to have 
a utility for writing a custom modules.conf too.

Best,

dp



Christoph Eckert wrote:

>>looks like dmix solves the problem
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>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?
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>>but it seems like it's 
>>not that easy to set it up (I haven't tried since I have
>>soundcard with hw support for multiple channels).
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>AFAIK the latest ALSA and kernel brings DMIX per default 
>without the need to create an asoundrc.
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>Best regards
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