[linux-audio-user] Making alsa multi-client

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:04 +0200, David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 23:56, linux-audio-user-request at music.columbia.edu 
> wrote:
> > > Thanks. Looks interesting but I am not clear how to use it without
> > > oss, alsaplayer, etc. I just want the hw:0 or other device to be
> > > multiclient.
> >
> > Impossible - the hardware cannot do this.
> 
> Obviously, my card cannot. What I had in mind was an analog of virmidi which 
> viraudio:0, viraudio:1 ... would OR into hw:0. Might be doable with 
> a .soundrec (I have never used one). My point was that I want to do it all in 
> alsa, no oss, . Jack of course does all this just fine except for apps with 
> no jack support.
> 

Then you must use dmix.

Lee