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

[Christoph Eckert]

> looks like dmix solves the problem

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?

> 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).

AFAIK the latest ALSA and kernel brings DMIX per default 
without the need to create an asoundrc.


Best regards


    ce