[LAU] Alsa or pulseaudio?

[Jennifer]

Hi list. I am still having problems getting my sound to work properly (or as I would like it). Currently I can play speech or something else but I can't have speech and any other kind of sound together. I have upgraded my distro to 9.04 and switched from the EEE kernel to a generic Kernel. I am now also running version 1.0.21 of the Alsa driver, library and Utils. Would this now have Dmix by default and if so I'm guessing I need to do some configuration in order to get multi channel sound.
I don't really know much about sound or working with Alsa so if any-one knows some links to some fairly simple documentation that can give me the building blocks I may need to try and fix this problem that would be great.

Thanks
Jen!
     



From: Jennifer 
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:19 PM
To: Giorgio ; leslie.polzer at gmx.net 
Cc: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org 
Subject: Re: [LAU] Alsa or pulseaudio?


I'm sorry but I don't understand your message. Did it get scrambled or is this some code I should put somewhere?



From: Giorgio 
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:48 PM
To: leslie.polzer at gmx.net 
Cc: Jennifer ; linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org 
Subject: Re: [LAU] Alsa or pulseaudio?


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On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Leslie P. Polzer <sky at viridian-project.de> wrote:


  Jennifer wrote:

  > I am now using Alsa but can't seem to get multi channel sounds,
  > I.E speech and/or system sounds, I only have speech.


  You need to buy a proper sound card with hardware mixing (e.g.
  SB Audigy) or configure Alsa to do software mixing. Why modern
  distributions don't configure this properly on their own puzzles
  me, but they probably just throw in the horrible PulseAudio
  without thinking a lot about it.

  Oh wait, I just saw an nice bit of news: ALSA 1.0.9rc2 or later
  supports software mixing by default, but you probably don't have
  that version yet.

  The bottom line is that you need to write the proper incantation
  into some text file. I don't need that so I'll leave that to
  the others to explain who have such a setup...

   Cheers,

     Leslie

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