Hi, On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:59:46PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote: > > The only problem I found is that that particular driver doesn't seem to > allow me to open /dev/dsp more than once. So, I can't run xmms, mozilla, > teamspeak all at the same time. Is there a work around for this besides > using a user space sound daemon? I really don't like the user space > daemons because I feel like its a waste of time to get each application > I want working to work with the particular sound daemon of the day.
Yes, the user space daemons do suck. You have two choices. One is to set up a "dmix" device as your default ALSA device (read archives and wiki to find how). The other is to invoke all of your OSS programs with the "aoss" hack in the alsa-oss package. > My Creative Labs SB Live card allows up to 64 opens of /dev/dsp and does > the mixing in the hardware/driver. This is really what I want to work. > Is there anyway to make this work with my card? Unfortunately these cards are cheap hardware, but dmix should do what you want. There is a latency penalty assocaited with the plughw interface, but for non-demanding applications it should not be anywhere near as bad as esd or arts. -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
