On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:13:30 -0800 Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:36:34AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:28 AM, "Morel Bérenger" > >> <berenger.mo...@neutralite.org> wrote: > >> >> Pure ALSA works fine if you only need one sound at a time and don't > >> >> need/want stuff like per source volume, and don't mind Flash sometimes > >> >> messing up and blocking all access to the sound card. > >> > > >> > I think you are speaking about OSS here, not about alsa. > >> > Alsa is able to play more than one soud/music at a time without problem: > >> > I > >> > can perfectly play wesnoth with sound+music and have mpd running > >> > background. (of course, I usually disable wesnoth's music, but not it's > >> > sounds) > >> > >> Nope, I am talking about ALSA. ALSA can only play more than one source > >> at a time with its dmix utility (ALSA itself is fundamentally unable > >> to do mixing) , but I have never, ever seen dmix work at all. > > > > Actually, that depends on the hardware. If your hardware can do hardware > > mixing (I know of at least one SoundBlaster that can, but I can't > > remember which model at the moment), then you can play simultaneous > > streams. But for most cards, you have to rely on software mixing (dmix, > > pulse, jack etc). > > Ah, you a right, I had forgotten. But most consumer cards don't (Xonar > don't, for example...higher end Creatives do, but I personally > wouldn't go Creative for that), and I don't know if any onboard chips > do. My ThinkPad T61's onboard 82801H Intel HD audio mixes audio perfectly out of the box (I'm using raw ALSA). > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130204154036.40304ad6.cele...@gmail.com