Hi, On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:15:49AM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Ryan Underwood wrote: > > What is the lowest speed CPU that anyone has had success with the dmix > > plugin on? It seems that even when only playing one stream, if the cpu > > is too slow, the sound cuts out. > > My Pentium 200 can do five streams or so without any problems. I never > tested with more, so I don't know what the upper limit is. > > What CPU do you have?
Testing it on a 486-25 with no cache. :) It's the laptop I recently hacked the ad1848 driver for. > > > Also, is there any way to prevent the OSS device from being blocked if > > the ALSA is being used? The dmix plugin prevents alsa applications from > > blocking, but OSS applications still block if an ALSA application is in > > use. [...] > > Could the same be done for ALSA, e.g. using a wrapper program against > > ALSA API instead of the OSS compatibility dsp device? > > Yes. The aoss script from the alsa-oss package will redirect accesses > to /dep/dspX to an ALSA PCM device named dspX (which must be defined > in your .asoundrc). Thanks! Actually, I knew about this at some point, but it's one of those things that slipped my mind from disuse over time. -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
