On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > > > P.S. What about Yamaha/Intel 753 chip that is found in the Toshiba > > > Satellite 5005's? > > All yamaha 75x should be supported with the alsa 'ymfpci' driver. > Yes, but does it include hardware mixing?
Yes it does. > So my question is since this problem of not being able to open /dev/dsp > (or audio or whatever you desire to call it) more than once (i.e. only > one app can "hog" the audio at one time) is the case with most of the > Linux audio hardware, why is there no solution as of yet to have a > kernel-implemented software mixing of multiple audio streams, so that > the soundcard can be queued from multiple apps/processes? Because kernelspace is the wrong place to do audio mixing. IIRC the problem was solved by userspace libraries and LD_PRELOAD which intercept calls from badly-behaved-oss-applications and manage mixing in userspace. Although I haven't tried this yet. > *There is esd, which is outdated and simply crappy. > *There is artsd, which is better, but not good enough, and again, the > app must be made to be aware of it in order to utilize it. > *There is JACK project which has a huge potential but none of its > effects are again universal, nor backwards-compatible with already > released software. > *There is Gstreamer, but I do not honestly know enough about it. Then make them better. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
