8 Jan
2005
8 Jan
'05
9:02 p.m.
Hasn't anyone been listening? dmix can do this
now. It's
a bug in your distro if this blocking behavior is the
default. There's no excuse for it.
Hm. I'm not yet familiar with dmix. Seems I should dive into
it.
AFAIK it needs to create an asoundrc.
Most distros use alsaconf as a backend for configuring
soundcards, and - I'm really not experienced in reading shel
scripts - it seems that alsaconf doesn't create an asoundrc
file for the user.
And manually create it? Well, it's somewhat a syntax similar
to lisp, I was told. I will need hours until I would have
understood and created an asoundrc which will do the job for
me.
So, if dmix is a solution, it needs tweaking the alsaconf
script to automatically create an asoundrc.
As for closed apps using the OSS API, if they
won't port
their software to ALSA, what makes you think they'd port it
to this new API?
Well, if they knew there's something which is the right thing
and if I support this one I will always be able to play sound
regardless how the soundconfiguration looks like on a
prticular machine, it will last time, but it will be
supported.
Best regards
ce