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? > 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). HTH Clemens ------------------------------------------------------- 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
