On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Alexandre <alexduthil(a)gmail.com> wrote:
  Hi
 Kinda new to linux audio and still a bit new to dev generally and I'm
 trying to understand the basis of linux audio.
 By that, I mean the ALSA API :
 I would like to use the PCM interface and the mixer interface to mix 2
 sounds 
the mixer interface does not do that. its an API to control the hardware
mixer (if any) present in the audio interface hardware. a lot of current
audio interface hardware is incapable of mixing sound from multiple
sources, so this is generally done in software.