[linux-audio-user] Sound cards inquiry (onboard solutions).

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Lee Revell escribió:
> The problem you describe has been solved since about ALSA 1.0.9.
>
> ALSA uses software mixing by default for all devices that require it,
> and OSS apps must be run with the "aoss" wrapper to make use of it.
> Apps that don't work with this simply need to be fixed.
>
> Lee
>   
I realize this, however as a sys admin I still have to struggle to 
explain to users why popular applications such as Skype makes their 
system produce no sound whatsoever or why do their media player stops 
woking whenever they have open Skype or why do the messages stop 
sounding when... etc, etc. That is what I meant. Not that technically 
this wasn't possible. Still I've been unable to make some OSS 
applications play nice with aoss (for instance the Quake3 game, the 
TeamSpeak VoIP app, Skype, etc). These problems obviously do not happen 
with hardware mixing capable hardware (like aging and trusty Sound 
Blaster Live! Value), and as such , we've decided to try and see which 
commodity audio solutions support hardware mixing beyond ALi and some 
VIA chipsets (BTW, does any body know if/when the Envy series of chips 
will support HW mixing, or if they even do HW mixing in Windows?... I 
was asked the other day about this)